On 04/03/18 13:31, Prabhakar Ragde wrote:
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> I used Racket with both my children at age 9. Here is a short writeup
> about it originally posted to this mailing list.
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20080612194829/http://home.adelphi.edu/sbloch/class/hs/testimonials/prabhakar.shtml
>
> In answ
On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 12:13:51PM -0500, 'John Clements' via Racket Users
wrote:
> > Mathematics is fascinating. It's repetitive arithmetic practice that's
> > completely, totally boring and designed to inculcate hatred of the
> > subject.
>
> “designed” ?
That is an overstatement, yes.
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Lets not meander off the question, shall we?
For an intro to programming - quickly seeing what and why happens trumps
things like S-expressions vs identation, functional vs imperative, name it.
What matters is that kids can form some mental model of what is happening
and why. Thus feedback matters
> Mathematics is fascinating. It's repetitive arithmetic practice that's
> completely, totally boring and designed to inculcate hatred of the
> subject.
“designed” ?
John
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On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 01:47:13AM -0800, HiPhish wrote:
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> As for Racket, I'm not quite sure. I think the S-expression syntax,
> immutability and functional programming are a bit harder to wrap your mind
> around than the usual way of giving the computer a sequence of instructions
> to
> follow
I am not a father, so take everything with a grain of salt from me. Also,
obvious disclaimer, every child is different, you know your children best,
and
all the usual stuff...
With that out of the way, I think computer illiteracy is one of the big
injustices that gets perpetrated in our modern so
On Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 8:41:16 AM UTC-5, Paulo Matos wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I have a 7yo daughter currently in 1st grade (Germany) and she was given
> a password for the school computer. Having never touched a computer
> before she is now being introduced to typing and the mouse.
>
> I wo
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