"Terry Hancock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tuesday 07 March 2006 04:44 pm, Rich wrote:
> I've been trying to get my kids to learn a little Python for some > time, but it hasn't been too easy for them yet. Then, out of the > blue, they want to learn Lua. > > Why? > > Simple -- Lua is the extension language for Enigma. So they want to > make new game levels ergo, they must use Lua. Motivation matters > more than ease, IMHO. :-) > > We realized recently that while teaching kids to program is hard, > teaching them to *hack* is easy. Once they learn to hack game > levels, they will learn, from the level designers, basics about > scripting and then programming, and they'll start to ask "how > can I make this easier?" > Hacking is "The Way" - I learned Z80 assembly language to cheat in Space Invaders on a Microbee conputer ;-). You can teach them some methods that make their hacking easier, like debuggers, script tools and all that. Maybe a Pyhton tool to simplify/generate skeleton code could be a devious way of getting Python involved? My son is quite proficient in using a collection of quite hairy build tools because he likes to build levels for Counter Strike Source. He has no interest in computers what so ever. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
