Forth for Education - 4E4th and 4E4th IDE

Forth for Education - 4E4th and 4E4th IDE http://www.4e4th.eu/

Abstract

This paper describes the necessity to offer special easygoing tools for the next generations of enthusiastic and engaged Forth programmers education, frankly reporting ways and means, showing a trailblazing example on the path to get there.

Preface

This is rather more an experience report than a technological review, but it has to be that way, to later make the conclusions better understandable for the reader. Recently I received a TED Talk by Kevin Kelly [1]: How technology evolves. I heard him saying "today, there are millions of young children being born whose technology of self-expression has not yet been invented. We have a moral obligation to invent technology so that every person on the globe has the potential to realize their true difference." Forth has the ability to do it's part of this moral obligation for millions of young children who are already born - the Forth technology of self-expression has been invented and has to be fed into practice for this purpose. That's why I am proposing an Education Initiative giving the opportunity to teach and learn Forth in a new, up to now unknown, and easygoing fashion. We call it 4E4th - Forth 4 Education

VisualFORTH was the last step needed to make the 4E4th Terminal-IDE possible