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JaroslavTulach at 20:55, 5 April 2015

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-	The history of mankind is repeating. In circles. Yet, according to Karl Marx it is repeating in spiral - the new generations are about to do the same mistakes as the previous ones, just on new (hopefully) higher level. A bit too optimistic conclusion, but as far as JavaScript goes, probably true.	+	The history of mankind is repeating. In circles. Yet, according to Karl Marx it is repeating in spiral - the new generations are about to do the same mistakes as the previous ones, just on new (hopefully) higher level. A bit too optimistic conclusion, but as far as [[JavaScript]] goes, probably true.

	I learned programming while coding in the Karel language. But it felt not like a real programming language, Karel was a programming language for children. Still, everything I ever learned about programming I owe to Karel. Those who know the two sides essay by Dijkstra can imagine what was my computer to execute my programs. Yes, I was simulating all the computations in hand. How does a computer of young generation looks like? Right, it is a browser. And JavaScript runs naturally in a browser. What kind of impact this can have on like-to-be-programers?		I learned programming while coding in the Karel language. But it felt not like a real programming language, Karel was a programming language for children. Still, everything I ever learned about programming I owe to Karel. Those who know the two sides essay by Dijkstra can imagine what was my computer to execute my programs. Yes, I was simulating all the computations in hand. How does a computer of young generation looks like? Right, it is a browser. And JavaScript runs naturally in a browser. What kind of impact this can have on like-to-be-programers?

JaroslavTulach at 20:55, 5 April 2015

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	Btw. there is also [[Karel]] built on top of [[NetBeans]] platform: http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/karelnb/		Btw. there is also [[Karel]] built on top of [[NetBeans]] platform: http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/karelnb/
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		+	The history of mankind is repeating. In circles. Yet, according to Karl Marx it is repeating in spiral - the new generations are about to do the same mistakes as the previous ones, just on new (hopefully) higher level. A bit too optimistic conclusion, but as far as JavaScript goes, probably true.
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		+	I learned programming while coding in the Karel language. But it felt not like a real programming language, Karel was a programming language for children. Still, everything I ever learned about programming I owe to Karel. Those who know the two sides essay by Dijkstra can imagine what was my computer to execute my programs. Yes, I was simulating all the computations in hand. How does a computer of young generation looks like? Right, it is a browser. And JavaScript runs naturally in a browser. What kind of impact this can have on like-to-be-programers?

JaroslavTulach at 06:49, 28 May 2010

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	[[wikipedia:Karel_(programming_language)\|Karel]] is a programming language for children which [[User:JaroslavTulach\|I]] learned being thirteen and participated in few contests. Its simplicity is its biggest strength. In order to do anything complex you have to learn what recursion is. As a result learning [[Karel]] early turns people in functional programming lovers (either really practicing it or just dreaming about it like [[User:JaroslavTulach\|me]]) which will be more and more useful in future to effectively deal with multi core programming.		[[wikipedia:Karel_(programming_language)\|Karel]] is a programming language for children which [[User:JaroslavTulach\|I]] learned being thirteen and participated in few contests. Its simplicity is its biggest strength. In order to do anything complex you have to learn what recursion is. As a result learning [[Karel]] early turns people in functional programming lovers (either really practicing it or just dreaming about it like [[User:JaroslavTulach\|me]]) which will be more and more useful in future to effectively deal with multi core programming.
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		+	Btw. there is also [[Karel]] built on top of [[NetBeans]] platform: http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/karelnb/

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[[wikipedia:Karel_(programming_language)|Karel]] is a programming language for children which [[User:JaroslavTulach|I]] learned being thirteen and participated in few contests. Its simplicity is its biggest strength. In order to do anything complex you have to learn what recursion is. As a result learning [[Karel]] early turns people in functional programming lovers (either really practicing it or just dreaming about it like [[User:JaroslavTulach|me]]) which will be more and more useful in future to effectively deal with multi core programming.