A couple of weeks ago my third grader daughter expressed renewed interest in learning how to program. She had already experimented with MIT Scratch over the past couple of years, so I tried to teach her Python using the Python for Kids book. Somehow, Python did not click — she didn’t see the point.

So I decided to move on to JavaScript. In my last post I pointed out the importance of JavaScript as the language of the cloud. Everybody has a Web browser on their computer, phone or tablet. All commonly used Web browsers support JavaScript. Anybody can run apps in JavaScript without having to install anything. Anybody can write apps in JavaScript without having to install anything other than a text editor.

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