Thank you for your insightful sharing. I love your idea to start with words that you feel interested in when starting a new language instead of following a provided list in textbook. And the correlation between languages and coding also piques my interest. I used to learn to code a few times, got a basic understanding of HTML, CSS or basic JS but gave up due to lack of instruction as well as direction. forGL and the ability to use words to code sounds amazing. I will definitely test it out.
Btw, sorry for my late reply, I have been off from Substack for a while. Hope that we can have more conversation over languages and coding in the future!
@Alyssa, enjoyed your enthusiasm in your learning languages ideas and how you expressed them.
I learn and use languages in a way that is as simple as i can ... but is not very typical.
I start with only a few words of interest per language.
Perhaps a dozen words or so.
These words are names of Key ideas of the language, sometimes called Keywords.
These words are in a Dictionary.
Some words are Numbers.
Some words are quoted Text.
Like Nouns.
Other words may have definitions that read like simple statements.
Like Verbs.
Nouns, Verbs, math Operators and Punctuation are the 4 primitive "parts of speech" that forGL uses.
The Dictionary definitions are as simple and obvious as possible.
Other words support
making decisions,
combining results,
repeating steps,
saving for later review,
showing intermediate or final results.
So yes, We can edit words in a Dictionary and then
run them as working computer programs.
In any combination you like.
Mix languages if wanted.
Main idea is allow thinking in your oun language to also be a 1 to 1 example of a working program.
Questions ?
https://www.forGL.org
Thank you for your insightful sharing. I love your idea to start with words that you feel interested in when starting a new language instead of following a provided list in textbook. And the correlation between languages and coding also piques my interest. I used to learn to code a few times, got a basic understanding of HTML, CSS or basic JS but gave up due to lack of instruction as well as direction. forGL and the ability to use words to code sounds amazing. I will definitely test it out.
Btw, sorry for my late reply, I have been off from Substack for a while. Hope that we can have more conversation over languages and coding in the future!