[TriLUG] Teaching Kids to Program

[John Vaughters via TriLUG]

Dwain,
I agree with everything that you said about fundemental programming. That is exactly why any decent programmer can jump from one language to another. I will have to disagree that Python will fade within 12 years. I predict that Python will become a defacto standard like bash, perl, and jscript. The momentum with python is serious and very complicated solutions are popping up all over the place. Including as API's to seriously large systems. Having said that, we have to recognize that the R-Pi generation of programmers will be in full force in 12 years. And just as I still program in my comfort lanuages when I have a choice, so too will these Py'geners program in their comfort language. It has all the makings of good growth. OS portable, small footprint and very powerful. 
I short, we have not seen a python peak yet and from a generational perspective it will be at least 20 years and still be considered a respectable scripting language like perl or bash, but much more capable. 
My 2 cents worth half a pence on a good day.
John Vaughters