Ruby its simple and easy and has many good libraries for it to develop web based apps, as well as teach object oriented programming. It also has decent and mature gui libraries, with Gtk and Qt as well as winforms. There is also jRuby to get into java landscape, so there are many pluses with ruby, but if you don't know much ruby, then it may not be the best to teach.
If teaching coding for its own sake, I'd vote Ruby or Go. OTOH, I don't know either of those well enough to be a whiz-bang teacher of them, whereas Perl is easy(?).On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Jay Hannah <jay@jays.net> wrote:
On Dec 21, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Scott Hickey <jscotthickey@gmail.com> wrote:
> Isn't the answer to all of those Perl? :)
Oh dear. So many ways to answer this. Mostly jokes. :) Pick your poison:
(1) Yes, Perl is always the answer. All questions are rhetorical.
(2) Yes, when you ask ME, Perl is always the answer. I'd agree with $you, but then we'd both be wrong.
(3) IntelliJ + Groovy made me swoon at Code Retreat Omaha, so I'm playing with that a little in case I'm ever trapped in a land of Java. #KnockOnWood
(4) Perl is especially awesome for iPad and Google App Engine development.</sarcasm>
:)
j
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