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by rrusczyk, Jul 11, 2009, 12:50 AM

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The guy who wrote that article needs to look up Prolog; the way he wrote the end of the article made it sound like he's only worked with sequential programming languages.

by MellowMelon, Jul 11, 2009, 3:03 AM

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In my opinion, these languages are crap. They are just causing kids to move away from teh more hardcore languages such as C, perl, java, python etc. Shielding kids from pointers and math isn't going to help. Probably the only useful thing you would be able to do with StarLogo TNG is to model the flu in a really horrible and unprecise way. If a kid spends a year messing with StarLogo or Logo, they'll learn how to move turtles but only in StarLogo. If a kid spends a year learning C however, they'll know about stacks, pointers, buffer overflows basically the stuff that makes up a computer.

by Poincare, Jul 11, 2009, 5:46 PM

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You can say the same thing about competitive math. Past the competitions, competitive math is largely useless. However, it gets more people excited about math, and it can be a bridge to "real" mathematics. Additionally, it does help with problem solving skills.

Although I don't think I know anything about programming, it seems to me that this game is trying to get more people interested in programming. If it does get more people interested in learning programming, I say it's good.

Anyways, it doesnt keep people away from "hardcore" programming. If someone is truly interested in programming because of this, they'll try to find more.

by xpmath, Jul 12, 2009, 5:05 PM

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I might also note that problem solving skills are more important than the math. (Though math is plenty important, the problem solving skills are a lot more transferable.)

by rrusczyk, Jul 12, 2009, 8:42 PM

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