At Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:54:38 +1100, Costello, Rob R wrote: > > From outside this all looks as though it might suffer from being a little too > pedantic in adhering to definitional terms > > As an educator I know this software to be sweeter than most for teaching and > learning of say, introductory programming.. > > The 'scratch' version is as sweet as anything for kids learning > > It feels as free and open as can be, in terms of what you can see and change > and modify > > I'm not any smalltalk talk programmer, but i get how you can access the > source code and make any change whatsoever at this level.. > > Still...take this as wild comment from a technically naïve educator who is > biased towards what works for kids learning
You are right on. Etoys is more open to users than most of other systems. It appears that knowing a particular way seems to hinder a lot of people to consider other ways of doing stuff. (Education, eh?) -- Yoshiki _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
