Looking for ugly code comparisons WAS: Slashdotter looking for kids' programming language

[Dave Cragg]

On 12 Dec 2008, at 16:09, Judy Perry wrote:

> Except that a child has almost certainly NEVER encountered that dot- 
> joining
> that you reference, but HAS encountered "the" rather alot.
> Judy

But more important surely is that the child has never encountered the  
programming concept of object properties. In Maths, for example, we  
teach kids new syntax for new concepts. I doubt many kids will tell  
you that "4 + 4" is more difficult to understand than "4 added to 4".  
But before either, we would usually introduce the concept, perhaps   
visually with pictures of oranges arranged in groups and so on. I'm  
guessing it's the same with programming - if you can establish the  
concept, then new syntax can be learned.

Then again, it may be that programming is just plain difficult,  
whatever language we use. :-)

Cheers
Dave