[fpc-pascal] FPC & Lazarus used for teaching down under

[Marcos Douglas]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graeme at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought I would share this bit of info.
>
> I'm not sure what I am more impressed about though. The fact that a long
> time Delphi developers is [finally] impressed with FPC / Lazarus, or the
> fact that "pascal" is still being used in some places [in this case,
> Melbourne Australia] for teaching programming. :-)
>
> Well done Peter, and keep up the good work. Spread the pascal love...
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Peter Hinrichsen
> Date: 28 February 2013 09:49
> Subject: Re: tiOPF: repository migrated to Git
> To: Graeme Geldenhuys, Ian Krigsman
>
> ...sip...
>
> Am taking a bit of a right-hand turn with work - am teaching four
> classes a week of programming to Year 5 - 9 kids.
>
> The younger kids start with Lego robotics & their software, then we move
> to programming Lego with C, then game programming with FPC.
>
> Am very impressed with FPC / Lazarus.
>
> P.
> ------------------[ end ]-------------------
>
>
> Regards,
>   - Graeme -

Very good!
But I'm afraid if someone thinking if Pascal is just for kids 5-9
years old... not here, but out there!  :)

Thank you for share it.

Regards,
Marcos Douglas