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Re: How to introduce 8 year olds to (Perl) programming?by Juerd (Abbot) |
on Apr 25, 2005 at 22:04 UTC ( [id://451360]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
When I first learned about computers and how a computer program worked, the metaphor used was very, very simple: recipes. A program is a recipe. Some recipes are used by other recipies, for example if you need a boiled egg in a greater meal. This is the most natural description of modularity I've heard so far. I think I was 9 or 10 years old when I started programming. Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }
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