Idera (nee Borland) must be stoked, they potentially just created 1 million new Delphi programmers in a 2nd world country. I'd add a bullet point to the sheet.
* One million Turkish kids
This isn't necessarily corruption. And we have no idea what they paid. The internet is lousy in Turkey, having a stand alone system with documentation, an IDE and a great debugger will work really well in that environment. Pascal is a perfectly fine language.
In my universe they started using Racket and The New Turing Omnibus (for middle school) and then The Little ____ Books [2] and then on to Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [3]
* One million Turkish kids
This isn't necessarily corruption. And we have no idea what they paid. The internet is lousy in Turkey, having a stand alone system with documentation, an IDE and a great debugger will work really well in that environment. Pascal is a perfectly fine language.
In my universe they started using Racket and The New Turing Omnibus (for middle school) and then The Little ____ Books [2] and then on to Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [3]
[1] https://racket-lang.org/
[2] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/books.html
[3] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html https://github.com/sarabander/sicp