On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:13:32PM -0600, Nick Thompson wrote: > Thanks, John, > > One would have thought that the word "expand" would have been a clue. > > What you describe seems a lot what they are doing in her school. > > So maybe I will leave it alone. > > I did fool around with "Alice" a bit. Have you ever known a child to run > with "Alice"? >
Not Alice, but I got my son to fool around with Scratch when he was about 8 or 9. He picked it up and did quite a few things in it, as well as coding lego robots in Robo C later on, but didn't end up being a coder. However I have hired him as a software tester (now that he's 18) as he has a good logical brain, even though his thing is more literature and history. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
