[AccessD] New Language

Noah is 14 and started a few years back - now he's the programmer for
the robotics team that won the regional competition and we're going to
St. Louis in 2 weeks for the national competition (OK now you're just
braggin' Smolin,  cut to the chase)


He knows a bunch of languages now and is a linux geek.  I think they
have no trouble learning the syntax of a language.  

What I taught him was technique - our bag o' tips and tricks, how to use
variable names that mean something, how to comment code out of self
defense, arrays, structuring your program with basic building blocks of
functions and subs, stuff like that.  

And I'd give you son a simple task to complete - I never learned
anything in programming that I didn't have to, that is, I could never
force myself to learn something without an application.  And a language
that fits the application.  Noah does a lot with LUA.  Java and C might
be better for him.  But I don't think that matters too much as we know
the skills from one language transfer to other langauges.


But what would be cool is if he could learn enough Access to start on
some simple maintenance tasks for you - modify a form or a report, add a
field, stuff like that.  Eventually he works into a paying job. :)

ROcky

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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 11:27 AM
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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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