Dear Stephen, The goal of the site is not an introduction to programming for the beginner.
Its a site designed to expose students and teachers to the multitudes of programming languages out there. DrScheme looks like a good approach. Kind regards, Samuel On 4/05/2010, at 4:03 AM, Stephen Tetley wrote: > Hi Samuel > > I'm not sure Haskell is an ideal language for school age teaching, > DrScheme seems a more obvious choice. > > Paul Hudak made a good case for Haskell as a learning language with > his School of Expression book, but if you weren't directly following > that book, I think it would be hard to make the teaching fun (which > I'd expect to be the major battle for teaching kids). Obvious problems > - cryptic error messages, hiatus from graphics / multimedia, lack of a > text book (if not using School of Expression)... > > That said, there were some nice slides from John Peterson about > teaching summer school mathematics where Haskell was used 'under the > hood' to create music or draw pictures. The students certainly weren't > exposed to full Haskell - just a very small core that was largely > familiar from maths, plus specific functions to compose pictures / > music. > > Best wishes > > Stephen > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
