Terje Dahl <te...@terjedahl.no> writes: > I believe that the simplicity of Clojure's syntax in combination with its > clean functional nature and prefix notation makes it ideal as a "first > language" for anyone who wants to start programming - including, and > perhaps especially kids.
There's a lot of research out of the PLT and DeinProgramm projects on this. You'll find the relevant ones here: http://deinprogramm.de/publications.html These are not about Clojure per se, but discuss Scheme, which is close enough. tl;dr: No, Clojure is not an ideal language for teaching beginners. For teaching beginners, you should use a language specifically engineered for beginners, such as the teaching languages that come with Racket. (The transition to Clojure from these languages should be quite easy, though.) -- Regards, Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
