Mohamed Samy <samy2...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi everyone, > > I've created an educational programming language (Arabic based) and > now attempting to test it on some children in my family, talking with > some schools...etc > > One of the major design directions for it was the concept of nested > sub-languages; the first level looks like 80s basic, then structured > programming is added on top, then OOP...etc. I'm not sure, but this > might fit in with Piaget's stages of development model; where as a > child masters the lower-level concepts they can move to the higher > level; instead of treating the situation as "one language must fit > all" it's conceptually a ladder of languages. > > I've written about it here (with English-ized code samples) if > anyone's interested... > > http://iamsamy.blogspot.com/2012/04/educational-tower-of-programming.html
Congratulations! AFAIK it's the first programming language in Arabic. I would suggest to teach lisp (or scheme) to children. You could make an arabic lisp. The only thing needed (you already have it implemented for kalima) is the right-to-left editor. Google translate displays arabic lisp forms nicely: http://translate.google.com/#en|ar|%28%28lambda%20%28a%20b%29%20%28if%20%28%3C%20a%200%29%20b%20%28-%20b%20a%29%29%29%2042%205%29 You could base it on Common Lisp (definiting a package "العربية لثغة" that would export aliases of the COMMON-LISP symbols; with 99% solution, there would be very little English leaking (NIL would have to remain CL:NIL, since any other symbol would be true; for the rest some level of wrapping around would be able to translate keywords and &key arguments to CL operators). I'd start with clisp which already has some internationalization provisions. http://clisp.podval.org/impnotes/i18n.html My guess is that once they've learned Arabic Lisp they would more easily switch to Common Lisp ;-) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
