My knee jerk reaction was pretty negative, but on only a few seconds’ reflection I think this is great. Absolutely no reason why kids can’t start with C++; it doesn’t have to be template meta programming insanity from the get-go. Motivated kids have infinite capacity for learning and a lot of time for exploration.
Kudos for not patronizing them with some awful imitation of flow programming or some neutered scripting language.
Kudos for not patronizing them with some awful imitation of flow programming or some neutered scripting language.