Originally Posted by Iucounu
Javascript is not "less of a language", but merely a different beast, a much more loosely typed browser scripting language.

Austin, I'm guessing you work in a Microsoft shop, am I right? laugh Broaden your focus a bit. Bostonian is right in any event about the choice of a child's first language being unimportant in terms of long-term programming choice. What's more important is that the instruction is clear and provides a strong conceptual foundation.

Khan Academy will be teaching JavaScript as a first programming language, for reasons explained at http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-as-a-first-language/ . A recent book with good Amazon reviews on teaching programming with JavaScript is "Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming" by Marijn Haverbeke.


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