[clue] Budding SW Engineers

[Grant Johnson]

Excellent idea. Linus and I both started on old CBM machines.  The great thing is that they were simple enough to understand the whole thing.  You could start on vice emulators, but Arduino I'd even better.  It incorporates the good of the old machine's simplicity with being able to interact with the physical world, and a language more c than basic.  Brilliant suggestion.

Stephen Queen <svqueen at gmail.com> wrote:

>On 5/8/12, lsawyer at scsdenver.com <lsawyer at scsdenver.com> wrote:
>> With all this talk of programming, it has sparked more from the
>interest
>> I've had over the last couple of years. I'm just wondering if there
>are
>> books anyone knows of that can teach in a entertaining manner.
>Perhaps by
>> creating fun little programs one can use immediately. Perhaps some
>type of
>> cookbook of "Choose which program interests you most" and learn along
>the
>> way type of training. Similar to some old electronics kits you could
>buy at
>> Radio Shack. This would not only be more enjoyable (compared to the
>many
>> boring beginner books), but also give immediate purpose to someone
>who
>> doesn't have a lot of free time, and when free time is available,
>would like
>> to spend it doing something fun. Anyone have any thoughts? I'm
>interested in
>> C# (Java), Pearl, but don't really have a preference on which
>language. Just
>> need to learn some techniques, what are Classes, Functions and other
>Object
>> Oriented things I always hear about, that sound important.
>>
>If you just want to have some fun, look at getting and programming an
>Arduino board. Check out sparkfun.com The language is unique to the
>Arduino, but is designed to be easy to learn. There are all kinds of
>fun projects you can find to learn from.
>
>It won't teach you OOP, but you'll get some of the basics and have fun
>while your doing it.
>
>Steve Queen
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