Teaching Kids Forth

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15 points | by rbanffy 1 hour ago

5 comments

  • cameldrv 15 minutes ago
    Writing RPL on my HP48 as a young teenager influenced the way I thought about programming significantly. RPL IMO is underrated as an educational tool. It introduces the stack based concept, but also the "everything is an object" concept. As a useful language I'm not sure, but it was definitely fun to think about.
  • veltas 1 hour ago
    I really love Forth and spend almost all my free programming time playing with it and I'd never teach it to a class of kids.
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    • rbanffy 1 hour ago
      My kid was curious about my HP-35 and I taught them how it works. They got it in no time and I made it an exercise to rewrite math expressions in RPN.

      Not sure they are that interested in programming, but FORTH is a little sweet language.

      My first experience with it was Paul Lutus’ GraFORTH. On the Apple II it was ridiculously fast.

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