Bill Gates: Answering Questions in India

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SlackmasterK wrote:This wouldn't be a problem if they still bundled QBasic with Windows. That's what I grew up on; except I started on GWBasic (on a TRS-80) from age 5 to about 10.
SlackmasterK wrote:This wouldn't be a problem if they still bundled QBasic with Windows. That's what I grew up on; except I started on GWBasic (on a TRS-80) from age 5 to about 10.
This is the Walt guy from the video. Just wanted to say that Jonah Stagner didn't make it for the video recording - but he's the other guy on the KPL team, and came up with the original idea for KPL, so he could teach his own kids to program. Without that
idea KPL wouldn't exist today!
Thanks, Charles, and thanks to Channel9 for helping spread the word!
W3bbo, you're right. But the original plan was to create a "Kid's Programming Language", that's why they called it that. They didn't expect it to be used by older children. But now beginners of all ages start using it.W3bbo wrote:I think calling it "Kid's Programming Language" patronises the users a little bit, even the most 'impractical' of languages find themselves being used for 'real world' programming tasks (see TDW for more examples).
Besides, who'se to say that a beginner adult wouldn't be using this?
I think a better moniker would be "Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" (oh wait...), how about "Microsoft Programming Starter Edition", the users are able to move-up to "Home" and "Ultimate Editions" depending on the features they want
xeubie wrote:Damn...the video is going really fast. You all sound like chipmunks.
I always have problems with your videos...first it was when the video would turn green and invert upside down, now this.
I'm on XP. Is it just me?
xeubie wrote:Is it just me?
Luca Serano wrote:
Now I'm 18, and I've been using C# for three months.
TommyCarlier wrote:Current plan is to simply call it KPL
dotnetjunkie wrote:
You should have started with C# about 5 years ago...
Do you realize that .NET is almost 10 years old (9 years by the end of 2006)?!
TheSchwartz wrote:There are 28 jobs listed at DICE for LISP programmers.
There are 3821 for VB programmers.
There are 4581 for C# programmers.
Here's an analogy: is it more useful for your kids to study Spanish or Chinese or Japanese as a second language? Or Latin or Greek?
The video makes the KPL more look like a "serious" programmer's language. I'd like to point out a more fun way to apply programming to solve problems, such as driving robots in space missions. It's CeeBot
http://www.ceebot.com/ceebot/index-e.php and its game sibling, CoLoBoT
http://www.ceebot.com/colobot/game-e.php
It would be nice to have a KPL like development environment with the CoLoBoT back-end