Well, maybe. I watched the first video they had, but I think it's the wrong way to go. There's too many people who don't understand the basics of a computer. The low level stuff. Moving even farther away from that is not a great idea imo. I mean, would you take your car to a mechanic who only knew how to change the oil?
And I really wasn't too impressed with the video. Whether you type out a line of code or you drag-and-drop it like this appears to do, you still need to know what it does. Plus, showing students doing drag-and- drop in one frame of the video, then moving to some whiz-bang sims- style 3d world like it only took 2 clicks of a mouse is quite misleading to people who don't know any better. If they want to get young people involved, then companies need to make it a good career choice. Those companies also need to work with young professionals on what they want out of their careers. Things like flexible working arrangements (telecommute, flexible hours, job sharing), advancement, continuing education, job security, etc.. I imagine there's quite a few people who are very bright, but what companies offer just doesn't appeal to them. I know I've had a hard time with this. On Apr 10, 10:40 pm, RichardBronosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for the cross-post, I didn't realize this group existed before > posting this to Android-Developers. > > http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=what_is_alice/what_is_alice > > If Google gets the Android platform so that anyone on any network has > the freedom to run it, and uses something like Alice to teach normal > people to program for it... What could ever compete against that? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
