Le 17/09/2015 17:10, Pen-Yuan Hsing a écrit :
Hello,
First of all, thanks everyone for your help several weeks ago on the
Freeing of a scientific software I mentioned here. I have a couple
follow up questions which I plan to post in another message, but for
now there is another issue.
I learned that a teacher in a secondary school in my town is starting
a coding club for their students (probably teenagers), and they're
looking for information or other direct support regarding how to start
it. Since this coding club is just starting, I think this is a great
opportunity to include in their agenda the concept of Free Software.
I am not an active coder myself, but care a lot about Free Software,
and I want to do what I can to make sure this club goes in the "right
direction". However, I have zero experience doing this. Do folks here
have ideas, or better yet links to existing
websites/information/teaching plans that are appropriate for this? I
plan to email the lead teacher soon about the important of Free
Software in their club, and would appreciate anything you can
provide!! I think the more we can give the teacher the better. Thanks!!
[having only little skills in English, please point any impairing
mistake (I'm French)]
Fortunately, coding is one of the most outstanding features given by
Free Software, not only by design but by lang::fr::nature :)
That said, first question is not "what do you want to code" but "what do
you need needing coding": first step to learn for coding is to something
simple which *you want to exists but can't find*, or, at option, reallly
do not already exists, or, more, already exists but do not fit
*perfectly* *your* needs.
My opinion is: some tools always exists but never fit perfectly your needs.
Just take the ways to rotate a screen and the way and conditions *you
think* a screen should rotate. You have a project, scalable from a bash
alias to a C project (Ada would work too if you want for contracts),
with any kind of programming model and typed level.
You'll also want the screen rotates from a web interface, authenticated
and with no [fakes?] to a complete classroom if your goal is to say
"now, we start to read text displayed vertically as a book, please
rotate your screen counerclockwise... No Allan, *counter*clockwise, the
goal is not to read head top-bottom").
While you can do almost anything with free software with excerpt for (at
time) quantic crypto break and low cost blu-ray tray scrambled video
reading, anyone in the crew needs only whiches :-)
