Hi All,
This is just a thought, but for a while I have been thinking about
providing hooks into python from existing activities. What if
Calculate provided a button that hooked into Pippy - when the button
is pressed, Pippy would pop up, showing the underlying python code
that is producing the math equation being focused on in Calculate. I
think this could be a great way to introduce children to python with
context. This could be thought of as as a gentle 'view source',
focusing on math within python.
More generally, I would love to see such a hook in other activities
to provide hooks into python in a specific context.
Just an idea.
Cheers,
Julius
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On Sep 5, 2007, at 3:06 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
While in the abstract, Yoshiki has a great idea, I see three problems:
(1) Especially for young children who are just beginning to read and
write, imposing Python and its syntax on them is to high of a hurdle
for accessing a calculator;
(2) While I love Pippy, it has a long ways to go towards being
friendly to the uninitiated: there is no debugger, for example; This
is fine for the purposes for which it was designed, but to use it for
a general purpose tool is a real stretch;
(3) Reinier has added a very approachable feature set to the latest
versions of the Calculator Activity: it lets you define variables and
hence contruct word problems. It isn't a full-blown programmng
environment, but it is one of many stepping stones for younger
children.
I would almost go so far as to agree with Yoshiki that for the more
advanced calculator features: trig fucntions, etc., we do make the
leap into Pippy or Etoys, but there is something simple and
approachable to Reinier's work.
-walter
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