HP Prime or HP 50g

[Manolo Sobrino]

I find some things increasingly bizarre.

Tim acknowledges that there are "issues that are primarily centered around having two different parsers".

How can you end up with two parsers with different syntaxes meant to be used back and forth in an education-oriented device is beyond my understanding.

Then Bernard argues about teaching programming: "Calculators are a good environment to do that because it's much more simple to organize a lesson with the calc than in a computer lab room"... So the key here is what comes in handy for teachers, nice pedagogical principles.

I can't think of a worst introduction to programming than being forced to code in a non standard environment for a sui generis platform when you have computers at home and a computer classroom at school.

My nieces learnt quite a bit of useful and widespread C with DevCPP when they were 16 at high school (Spain). Maybe it's not perfect, but it's a reasonable approach if you really care about what's good for them, not for you. (BTW, one of them is doing fine at her 3rd year of engineering and that was of help).

I just don't understand this kind of reasoning, maybe there's something wrong with me, that must be it.