On 22 Oct, 2005, at 23:05, Omer Zak wrote:
because i wanted the course to be fun, and kids love games - so
writing
games is the theme of the course. it is much better then writing
programs
for the sake of learning a programming language and for the sake of
learning programming abstractions with no meaninig and no motivation,
that's the general rule in programming courses.
I would like to point out that the current state of art in computer
games is that it is not possible to write a cool (according to present
standards of coolness) game in an introductory programming course.
You'll then promise those children that they'll be able to write
computer games substantially like the ones they play at home. Then
they'll be disappointed.
How about something having to do with robots? With robots you still
can
do pretty cool things after a short course.
זו באמת שאלה טובה, אולי כדאי לנסות את החומר הקיים על תלמידים אמיתיים,
לפני שמשקיעים זמן נוסף בכיוון הזה.
לי החומר נראה מעניין, אבל אני לא מתעניין במשחקים…
ניר סופר
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