I thought this was a good intro to the basic principles. I was thinking of my students working with TurtleArt, Scratch, and Etoys and using this to help abstract some of the more general concepts of programming from what they had been doing.
Gerald On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Walter Bender <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Looks nice :) > > Pretty good. A few places it could be improved. For example, in his > compression example, Page 28, he gets confused about bits and bytes. > And his page on Open Source is a bit off the mark IMHO. Still, it may > appeal to some. I'd be curious to get some teacher reactions. > > -walter > > > > > - Bert - > > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> > >> From: Andre Lessa <[email protected]> > >> Date: 19. März 2010 05:28:54 MEZ > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: [Edu-sig] "Computer Science For Kids" Book Announcement > >> > >> Hey Python Community, > >> > >> I just self published this brand new book and I'm making its PDF > >> available for (free) download on my web site. > >> > >> My goal is to explain some very basic fundamentals of computer science > >> to kids who are starting to learn about computers at school and/or at > >> home. For the tiny hints of programming, I referenced Python. If you > >> (or a kid you know) ends up having access to this book, please send > >> your feedback (suggestions/corrections) directly to me so I can start > >> thinking about the next edition and how I can make it even cooler for > >> kids. > >> > >> Thanks! > >> Andre Lessa > >> > >> You can download the entire book here (no registration required). > >> "Computer Science For Kids" > >> http://www.LessaWorld.com/kids/ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Edu-sig mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > > > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > [email protected] > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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