You can tell I haven't been on social media much lately because it turns out I forgot what a bad idea it was to mention choice of first programming language to teach.
I promise you, we have enough opinions of our own without getting more from strangers on the internet... (Don't worry, I'm sure *your* opinion is the right one, though ;))
Perhaps I should also add (given that I've just mentioned it and it was probably just as bad an idea...) that answering the question "What language should we teach first?" without first deciding what we want them to do with it (that is, at least, during the rest of their degree whether that's CS or ends up being something else) is probably also a bad idea.
Anyway I still want to steal lots of ideas from Smalltalk.
Now, now, @[email protected] . You're almost making it sound like different programming languages are better at or make it easier to communicate different things to both their users and maybe even the computer.
This is obviously nonsense, as shown by the many developers who will immediately tell you the best programming language.
@mavnn Indeed, and who am I to argue with those who work in The Real World(tm) anyway? ;)
@[email protected] ah, well. It's all over now anyway. There's a line of LLM enthusiasts just waiting to explain to you how natural language is the ideal tool for capturing and defining complex processes.
@edwinb Ocaml. You just must teach them this one! 🤣
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