[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > A while back Papert in Mindstorms proposed that young children > be taught to program in Logo, and that this would enhance their > cognitive development and expose them to 'powerful ideas'. A > key idea was recursion.
I see that "a while back" was in 1980. Can anyone offer any research evidence from the past 27 years that might cause us to think differently today, or did Papert get it exactly right back then? Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21/ Phone: +44 (0) 1223 334418 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
