[AccessD] New Language

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Hi John,

My only concern would be that VBA is (probably) a slowly dying language - or at least being phased out by .net etc.  Mind you the principles of good programming are similar regardless of the language.  Interested to hear about this as one day it will be my turn to teach my kids.  The oldest is only 3 but already he enjoys poking around on the computer. "Work" he calls it.

good luck John, keep keeping us informed on your progress here.

regards
Darryl. 

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2011 2:27 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] New Language

My 10 year old son is independently and without prompting asking dad to teach him how to program a 
computer.  :)

It appears that he has decided that what dad does is pretty cool.

Anyway, I think I will look at this with Robbie.  I think I will also start teaching him Access. 
IMHO, Access is a pretty easy to use programming environment, with the debug window to just execute 
code, buttons to press to cause code to run, and text boxes (unbound) to enter data in for things 
like a simple "add two numbers" first project.

Does anyone want to share "teaching the kids" stories?

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 3/25/2011 5:41 PM, Stuart McLachlan wrote:
> For all you people who are looking at  moving away from Acces who want something easy to
> use  and are wedded to the .Net world, MS have just the thing for you:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx
>
> :-)
>
>
>
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