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Java tutorial for elementary school students

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I think it's time parapete stops commenting on who should do what on pouet.net. Or else he'll have to accompany keops in v2.0.
i really cannot take this seriously...
using the java "examples" above for teaching 6-10 year old pupils programming? ...
way to go!

if you want to teach a 6-10 year old child what programming languages are and you want to explain it, use simple samples where you have basic "input -> processing -> output".
and this includes NOT using an overengineered (object-oriented) crappy language like java, but rather a simple (procedural) language.

understanding concepts like objects, exceptions, streams, buffers ... is far beyond the scope of children of that age. even if you tell them to ignore those instuctions/lines it will still confuse them.

use a language where you only write down the instructions which actually do something (plus a very small overhead) and they will probably have some fun and at least have a chance of understanding it.
added on the 2008-02-08 16:04:57 by gopher gopher
parapete : or he's now writing an article about it for Hugi :)
added on the 2008-02-08 16:08:44 by keops keops
Or at least

and the fbIDE is even multilingual...
added on the 2008-02-08 16:10:16 by bdk bdk
anes: keep giving adok suggestions if you like, i'm just saying it's utterly futile.
because "it's utterly futile" it's absolutely perfectly normal to lock a thread and stop everyone's right of expression. that's keops logic.
the discussion's not futile, but it's been completely coloured by adok's nonsense.
anes : am I part of your fantasies or what ? What's with that sick fixation of yours ? I am flattered though, please continue :)

The one who tells people what to do here seems to be you actually, not Parapete :) Too bad you don't use that time to produce a demo or something, like demosceners usually do, not trolls.
added on the 2008-02-08 16:21:13 by keops keops
*chomp* *chomp*

Damn, Parapete is trying to spoil my fun ! :( That sucks ! The show can't end like this ! No fucking way !

*take a sip of coke*

Aha. Bold move from anes, opposing parapete and tauting Keops at the same time. The thread is now about to reach the breakeven condition. From a comedy point of view, now would be the perfect time for Adok to come back with another of his weird tutorial ideas...

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added on the 2008-02-08 16:49:40 by TomS4wy3R TomS4wy3R
cross flamewars YES \o/


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added on the 2008-02-08 16:51:41 by Zest Zest
OOOOOOR, Zest could just drop by and post another useless pic... again.

*chomp* *chomp*

This is getting better and better every time...

*slurp*
added on the 2008-02-08 16:55:12 by TomS4wy3R TomS4wy3R
BE A JAVA HERO!

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added on the 2008-02-08 17:02:56 by Zest Zest
keops: in where and how i've told anyone what to do (besides opposing adok, which is the discussion itself) and how in the world do you know what i am doing by obviously spending more time in pouet than me?
*chomp* *chomp*

Okay, we're in the pipe. 5 by 5. :)

*chomp*
added on the 2008-02-08 17:13:31 by TomS4wy3R TomS4wy3R
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I think it's time parapete stops commenting on who should do what on pouet.net


here maybe.

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how in the world do you know what i am doing


It's obviously easier to find posts from you on the BBS than demoscene prods from you, that was my very point. You're obviously too busy fantasizing on me. How kinky of you.
added on the 2008-02-08 17:19:45 by keops keops
ok, i am being commanding when telling people not to be commanding. that's only one step further from not telling anything. where else (damn it starts with where again) :)

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It's obviously easier to find posts from you on the BBS than demoscene prods from you, that was my very point.

i agree, number of bbs post minus number of prods is exactly the measure for doing nothing but trolling. but i just have a feeling that your score outruns mine.

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You're obviously too busy fantasizing on me. How kinky of you.

sorry, it's not about you. you're the only guy who takes my words against pro-authority personal in pouet.
*chomp* *chomp*

And here, dear readers, we have reached what could be called a "pouetian discussion deadlock". It's a twist in the storyline : if two characters accuse each others of checking Pouet too often, then they'll both STOP checking Pouet for a while. Which -Thank God!- could bring that part of the discussion to a temporary end. And a no-win game.

How ironic that this arguing about NOT ENDING this thread ends up, in fact, in actually ENDING it, or making it going so wrong that everybody will soon agree : let's END this, because... Well, because it's not worthy.

Makes you wonder about the meaning of life, hu ? Makes you wonder about Hugi News, Adok, and his Java tutorials too, isn't it ?

You've now, like Keops and Anes before you, just entered the Twilight Pouet.

*chomp* *chomp*
added on the 2008-02-08 17:48:07 by TomS4wy3R TomS4wy3R
Broderick: FreeBasic seems to be a good idea, but it's still too buggy. I tried compiling a program from my QBasic tutorial:

Code:CLS PRINT "Wie lautet dein Name?" LINE INPUT name$ PRINT "Und wie lautet dein Pseudo?" LINE INPUT pseudo$ PRINT "Guten Tag, "; PRINT name$; PRINT "! Dein Pseudo lautet "; PRINT pseudo$; PRINT "." PRINT "Willkommen im Club der QBasic-Programmierer!"
An error message appeared. It was about the line "LINE INPUT name$". It said that an "(" was expected. In the help page about LINE INPUT nothing was said about the need for parantheses. Probably the error was that the variable was named name$, as NAME is a reserved keyword. So this error message was misleading.

I renamed name$ to benutzername$. When I executed the program, it exited after printing the last line, and the window was closed, so I added the line "a$ = INPUT$(1)" to the end of the program so that it would wait for a keypress in the end. When executing the program now, it resulted in a crash. There's something wrong about INPUT$.

So FreeBasic is still immature and we must wait until it gets fixed until we can use it.
added on the 2008-02-08 17:49:56 by Adok Adok
Adok: maybe because FreeBasic IS NOT QBASIC FOR FUCK SAKE
added on the 2008-02-08 17:57:14 by waffle waffle
Yeh, my fault. mixed up the freebasic to some other *basic which i don't seem to recall right now.
added on the 2008-02-08 18:02:02 by waffle waffle
Why not try Alvyn Basic (an Amos Basic remake)? The project would definitely benefit from your valuable input.
added on the 2008-02-08 18:10:51 by noname noname
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This is the sort of situation where locking a thread would be appropriate. Adok's dressed up his "look at me! i'm doing a tutorial!" thread as a discussion, and then proceeded to ignore any constructive criticism. We should all his leave him to his stupid deluded exercise...


No. Locking threads is fascism.

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added on the 2008-02-08 18:20:18 by doomdoom doomdoom
*chomp*

God knows why, when I see that blank face, a quote springs to my mind : "Indeed." :D

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added on the 2008-02-08 18:23:28 by TomS4wy3R TomS4wy3R
noname: Alvyn is interesting and it's cool that it's open source, but it's only for Linux. However, I'll keep my eyes on it.
added on the 2008-02-08 18:28:25 by Adok Adok
The problem with using the QBasic tutorial is that QBasic isn't included in current operating systems. QBasic was a part of MS-DOS 5.0 and higher. If I used the QBasic tutorial the users would have the problem of obtaining QBasic. I googled and found many sites on which QBasic can be freely downloaded. But it's a commercial program and so I doubt this matches the copyright. If there was a good free QBasic clone, this would be the ideal solution.
added on the 2008-02-08 18:37:40 by Adok Adok

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