On Mon Dec 4 05:34:21 CET 2006, Winston Wolff wrote: > I definitely have to agree with Arthur on this point. I'm working on > some "educational software" at the moment, but it's really a simple > development environment for people learning Python. I.e. an open- > ended tool, not a product that teaches. I've been pondering the > question of what is good educational software full time for half a > dozen years now, and I still don't know how to answer it.
Going off at a tangent, your remarks about "an open-ended tool, not a product than teaches" reminded me of this interesting tutorial for Scheme: http://www.eblong.com/zarf/if.html#lists Maybe it's not all that suitable for children, but it's certainly a different way to learn a programming language. :-) David _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
