Re: [julia-users] Teaching Julia as a first language to kids or adults. ThreeJS? Web?

2016-04-05 Thread Tamas Papp
On Tue, Apr 05 2016, Páll Haraldsson wrote: > On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 1:46:10 PM UTC, Tamas Papp wrote: > >> "First" language for which group? > > Kid[s], that [I] have already taught/learned Scratch and Alice (or past > that "age"), now a 12 year old. Scott Jones, is also teaching similar

Re: [julia-users] Teaching Julia as a first language to kids or adults. ThreeJS? Web?

2016-04-05 Thread Páll Haraldsson
On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 1:46:10 PM UTC, Tamas Papp wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05 2016, Páll Haraldsson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm convinced Julia is the best second language to learn. Maybe, first, > if > > tutorials or books are ok, for the right project. What about libraries, > > what

Re: [julia-users] Teaching Julia as a first language to kids or adults. ThreeJS? Web?

2016-04-05 Thread Tamas Papp
On Tue, Apr 05 2016, Páll Haraldsson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm convinced Julia is the best second language to learn. Maybe, first, if > tutorials or books are ok, for the right project. What about libraries, > what would you recommend? It is hard to recommend libraries in abstract, without knowing

[julia-users] Teaching Julia as a first language to kids or adults. ThreeJS? Web?

2016-04-05 Thread Páll Haraldsson
Hi, I'm convinced Julia is the best second language to learn. Maybe, first, if tutorials or books are ok, for the right project. What about libraries, what would you recommend? I try to be cautions when I recommend Julia. Julia should be ok as a first* language, with a mentor. This seemed