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An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python
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You don't really have to.
You can just handwave
public static void main
, and only deal with primitives, then static functions, before introducing objects.That's what they did at my high school. It's weird, and there's much better ways and languages to introduce procedural programming, but it's possible.