Apologies for the munged formatting of my original message. Here it is with
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To: edu-sig@python.org
Subject: CTL: Computer Thinking Language
There is an interesting article in the latest ACM {Human Computing Skills:
Rethinking the K-12 Experience, Fletcher
As a current college student myself, I feel like chiming in here.
2009/3/2 michel paul mpaul...@gmail.com:
However, it is again more mathematically effective to read 2 + 3 * 4 as
the sum of 2 and the product of 3 and 4, or, sum(2, product(3, 4)). No
ambiguity there! And this is how you have
Having come from APL, later Logo, I'm used to interactive REPL (direct
interaction with an interpreter), gradually building up a namespace
i.e. as you define turtle-drawing functions, these get remembered.
You save to disk for persistence, but the primary experience is of
being in a session and
