kirby urner wrote: > Hi Andre --- > > My plan is to introduce my daughter to Python using the robot theme. > Your curriculum is an obvious place to start. I will be starting a > more in depth investigation of your work in the near future. > > My longer term hope is to see some physical robot offerings on the > market (in addition to the screen based ones) with some kind of Python > capability -- perhaps just a module with pre-defined motions the user > might resequence or trigger based on events (sensor inputs), per Lego > Mindstorms example. > > Also, I'm hoping the screen-based options become more visually > sophisticated, ala the Sims genre, i.e. we could script theater, > complete with dialog and sound, using Python (yes, this is Alice > territory). > > Arthur, before you blow your stack, this theater or playhouse genre > isn't about learning or teaching programming necessarily. It's about > scripting plays and sharing them with your friends.
What I would tend to blow my stack about is more the notion of pushing things off into to future... as if the barriers was technological. if: IDLE 1.1.2 >>> from visual import * >>> display(background=color.white) <visual.ui.display object at 0x0927D150> >>> sphere(color=color.blue) <visual.primitives.sphere object at 0x0927D120> ain't enough to get a kid excited, the kid is simply jaded. A fancier technology - Croquet? - plays better to the jaded, perhaps. seems to me with some certainty that playing to jaded sensibilities is not the role that educators should play. > An important fact to keep in mind, as we explore the space of > potentially marketable products. didn't know we were. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
