<< snip >> Ed Cherlin wrote:
> I propose to teach children the basics of the essential features used > in all of the major languages, in primary school. My short list of > really major concepts includes > > arithmetic (prefix in LISP, postfix in FORTH, infix everywhere else) > variable names are pronouns > namespaces > Boolean algebra > sets > permutations, sorting, and searching > combinatorics > lists of lists (LISP, SCHEME) > arrays (APL) > forests (arrays of trees, J) > OOP (Smalltalk, Python) > minimal syntaxes with neither parentheses nor precedence > parse trees > first-class functions > functional programming > number base/polynomial equivalence > data/program equivalence > database > topological (dependence) sorting for spreadsheets > I'd be interested in an adaptation of this curriculum for teens to adults. Or maybe we'd use the elementary comix or cartoons or whatever you're using, in addition to the various languages. Adults learn a lot from kid-oriented materials (Sesame Street for example -- teaches a lot about how to make cool YouTubes, lightning talks). I'm looking to advance adult / child understanding and appreciation for polyhedra as well, a traditional Renaissance focus. The five Platonics and their duals (the five Platonics) plus dual-combos (combining duals to get new polys): that's a theme for anime in bars as well as schools. http://coffeeshopsnet.blogspot.com/2010/04/smart-bar-lcds.html Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
