An educational programming language is a programming language that is designed primarily as a learning instrument and not so much as a tool for writing real-world application programs.
Many educational programming languages position themselves inside a learning path, that is a sequence of languages each designed to build on the others moving a student from easy to understand and entertaining environments to full professional environments. Some of...
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An educational programming language is a programming language that is designed primarily as a learning instrument and not so much as a tool for writing real-world application programs.
Many educational programming languages position themselves inside a learning path, that is a sequence of languages each designed to build on the others moving a student from easy to understand and entertaining environments to full professional environments. Some of the better known are presented below.
As part of the One Laptop per Child project, Smalltalk has developed a flow of languages each designed to act as an introduction to the other. The structure is Scratch to Etoys to Squeak to any Smalltalk. Each provides graphical environments which may be used not just to teach programming concepts to kids, but also physics and mathematics simulations, story-telling exercises, etc., through the use of constructive learning. Smalltalk and Squeak are fully featured application development languages that have...
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