[dev] Programming as a hobby - which language?

Hi, I prepare myself for doing programming classes/course for kids/teenagers in a local community center. And I need your advice. **I have to choose language/technology/environment to teach.** My current ideas are. For older teenagers: * PYTHON, +pygame. (I've already did such classes in the p

Re: [dev] Programming as a hobby - which language?

On Mon, 06 May 2019 17:06:13 +0200 sZpak wrote: Der sZpak, > I prepare myself for doing programming classes/course for > kids/teenagers in a local community center. And I need your advice. > > **I have to choose language/technology/environment to teach.** > > My current ideas are. > > For old

Re: [dev] Programming as a hobby - which language?

On 06/05/2019 16:39, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > On Mon, 06 May 2019 17:06:13 +0200 > sZpak wrote: > > Der sZpak, > >> I prepare myself for doing programming classes/course for >> kids/teenagers in a local community center. And I need your advice. >> >> **I have to choose language/technology/environm

Re: [dev] Programming as a hobby - which language?

Howdy, I generally agree with what Laslo said, except the part about teaching C to 7-12 year olds. C is a fantastic language, but you can't expect kids this age to easily progress when they need to worry about things such as memory management or pointers. Scratch is horrible and, from my experienc

Re: [dev] Programming as a hobby - which language?

Hi there, On Mon, 6 May 2019 at 08:05, sZpak wrote: > I prepare myself for doing programming classes/course for kids/teenagers > in a local community center. And I need your advice. I think you ask this question in the wrong forum. Suckless targets expert users, not programming noobs. But anyway

[dev] Mailing list searching

On Mon, 6 May 2019 08:13:32 +0200 Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 02:34:28AM +, opal hart wrote: > > Shouldn't this be a FAQ entry at this point for any suckless projects > > depending on Xft? > > If only we could teach people to read... > At least by then we'd have an exc

Re: [dev] dmenu transparent background

On Sun, 5 May 2019 21:38:44 +0200 Johan Björnehäll wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to use transparent background (see through/other > windows behind) with dmenu? You might have luck repurposing st's alpha patch [1] for dmenu [1] -- wowaname