Teaching Kids Forth
by rbanffy on 7/26/2026, 9:39:17 PM
https://gracefulliberty.com/articles/teaching-kids-forth/
Comments
by: pbgcp2026
All things considered, <i>unfortunately</i>, we are better off teaching them plumbing or painting ...
7/27/2026, 2:06:01 AM
by: jeberle
Leo Brodie's "Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Language and Operating System for Beginners and Professionals" is well-suited for any level student. It's quite fun and made a mark on my thinking. It's hard for a postfix dereference operator not to.
7/26/2026, 11:56:21 PM
by: sudb
I doubly enjoyed reading this because I feel like I'm reasonably sure the author never ran this through an LLM because of the "cirriculum" typo.
7/27/2026, 12:36:40 AM
by: veltas
I really love Forth and spend almost all my free programming time playing with it and I'd never teach it to a class of kids.
7/26/2026, 9:52:41 PM
by: cameldrv
Writing RPL on my HP48 as a young teenager influenced the way I thought about programming significantly. RPL IMO is underrated as an educational tool. It introduces the stack based concept, but also the "everything is an object" concept. As a useful language I'm not sure, but it was definitely fun to think about.
7/26/2026, 10:44:14 PM
by: q2dg
Why not Processing or P5.js?
7/26/2026, 11:17:52 PM
by: AI_hacker
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7/26/2026, 10:27:39 PM
by: hecreto
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7/26/2026, 9:55:58 PM
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7/26/2026, 10:32:53 PM