Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Apr 14 11:38:24 CDT 2011
Well of course you should be bragging...if you weren't you wouldn't be his father...it goes with the territory...it is your responsibility. It sure sounds like Noah is a chip off the old motherboard as the saying goes. But of course being his Dad you must post pictures and with explanations of the coding and how it works etc. One day, who knows, Noah may be able to keep his Mom and Dad in the lifestyle they have so aspired to. ;-) Good kid...send along my congratulations. LUA looks like a very interesting language, completely open source, written by two professors with PHDs in computer science and a researcher with a doctorate in mathematics; all from Brazil. The site where the language can be downloaded would be http://www.lua.org/ Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of rockysmolin at bchacc.com Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 9:56 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [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 Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 11:27 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 > > :-) > > > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com ********************************************************************** WARNING: All e-mail sent to and from this address will be received, scanned or otherwise recorded by the CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc. corporate e-mail system and is subject to archival, monitoring or review by, and/or disclosure to, someone other than the recipient. ********************************************************************** -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com