I found this excerpt very admirable, as it emphasizes the importance of teaching and learning different languages. This not only broadens the possibilities for someone, but in this day and age, it is necessary to be at least bilingual given the amount of languages people speak in the U.S. alone.

This excerpt Is remarkable because in order to feel the need to establish a new university, the board must have seen discrepancies in education amongst the other universities of the day. Languages being a missing component of a university that was of need to be changed is interesting since the board's purpose of including it so specifically shows that UVA was meant to be very cutting edge. It is mentioned that Spanish and French are needed to communicate with the other people of the Americas, which shows that the boar meant to educate generations of men who should amount to great stature in order to be needing these skills. This nuance shows me to me the thriving character of UVA, which is an education that is very practical.

Muhammad Amjad

List of supported languages for ASR or Mechanical captions.

The University set out a goal for the parents of young boys to begin their studies of the ancient languages at the year of age ten. This is an extremely young age, considering that the boys would be going to college eight years later. The minds of the young boys seem to be too young to be able to grasp this form of art. This correlates to my Engagement, Art Inside/Out, by focusing on the art aspect. Latin, Greek, and Hebrew are forms of art in the language aspect. This piece of art is powerful and intriguing; however, it may be too complex for the minds of ten year olds who are still trying to develop.

Alan Kay is on quora.

Suggestion for a programming language in which commands are displayed as comic strip panels, with each one showing the output up to that point.

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One might think that those other languages are well-represented. People connected with the Open Knowledge Foundation are currently tackling this very issue. Here, Open Education isn’t just about content.

Kotlin, a statically typed language that compiles to Java bytecode or JavaScript.

Swift GUI examples, and several links.

IBM has a Swift Sandbox.<br> Official guide: The Swift Programming Language

The Red programming language is based on Rebol (a Lisp-like interpreted language), but can compile binaries for several platforms. It is extremely lightweight. It covers the full range of programming tasks, from embedded systems to scripting. It's very young: they are working on a GUI library. http://www.red-lang.org/

A good point, but unlike the author, I still feel that having a REPL is also important for distinction as a scripting language, as it facilitates rapid prototyping.

An interesting perspective, which is a bit like the dual of the Lisp mantra: "code is data".

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Helpful concise, Python syntax doc

Full e-books on Perl

Fairly comprehensive guide to LISP Programming language- includes syntax

http://www.pythonlearn.com/ | A great resource for starting programmers looking to build knowledge and gain skills. Open Source Course

• Find a program that you greatly admire and read it.
• Takes note on the roles, inputs, and outputs of each major component.
• Take notes on how the components interact.
• Rewrite the program.
• Compare your code with the original.
• Note where you can improve and study accordingly.

Once you get the syntax and basic language idioms out of the way this is the real problem that faces us no matter what language we pick.

Languages were taught in grade school as a rule in modern times, but are no longer integral to public secondary education, as a rule.