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Teaching Kids Forth – Anna Liberty
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An educator shares their experience teaching the Forth programming language to middle and high school students. The author argues that Forth's stack-oriented, concatenative nature provides a more fundamental understanding of computing than modern scripting languages.
Forth is uncommonly used to teach programming to kids. Scripting languages like Python and visual environments like Scratch are far more popular options. But when I got the opportunity to introduce middle and high school students to programming, I chose the stack-oriented concatenative language from 1970.
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