On 7/6/07, Michael Tobis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, but I don't think you've successfully motivated your students > if that is all they can do in a month. Let me hazard a suggestion. > Rather than being too mabitious you are not being ambitious enough.
For having exchanged a few emails with Andy over the years, I feel I have to come to his defense and disagree with this statement. (more below) > > Scripting languages have batteries included. Doing the stuff you would > have done with BASIC in 1980 is not necessary and not sufficient. I > imagine few tenth graders can connect printing sentences backwards and > such with anything they care about. > The following is a quote from an old message from Andy on this very list: ======== I've found RUR-PLE to be a very constructive way to approach programming. I use it to teach the basics of looping and branching and defining subroutines, and we do about 6 of Andre's exercises. (We spend about 4 1/2 hours of class time on it before moving on to Python, using modified versions of the LiveWires and a little bit from How To Think Like a Computer Scientist.) ======== These are all modern resources targeted to kids. ---- As for Andy's original query.... I have no answer to provide. André _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
