Hello Christophe, On 4/16/19, Christophe Gragnic <christophegrag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> However I am looking for something only based in PicoLisp. > > Indeed MicroAlg is not what you are looking for. > But let me make some suggestions: > 1) Don't underestimate the (natural) language barrier. > Many of my students were glad the language was in French. > But your students may be good enough at reading/writing English. It should not indeed be tough to learn a bit of French for the sheer fun of seeing your website. :) > 2) Don't understimate the power of syntax highlighting > (rainbow parens, delimiters and delimited sections, and keywords). > You'll be happy to be able to debug a program in 10ms. > > 3) Don't underestimate the fun that kids can have in a playground. > You want you students to work with a practical language, with real > applications. > This is very nice but may not be really needed at first. > Toy programs with text display, with a turtle, with shapes to draw… > could be enough. > > 4) Deployment is important too. Try to make it easy. > Thank to Jon Kleiser I was able to make the snippets run in the > browser too, which was a bliss. > > Have fun! I am considering and exploring Emacs Lisp for kids. Let's see. -- Warm Regards, Nehal Singhal -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
