On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 04:42 +0200, guy keren wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Omer Zak wrote:
> > Lego kits?
> > Other robot kits?
> > Look for someone who will start an electronics club to run in parallel
> > with your Python course?
> > Does the school already have an electronics club (or even robotics club)
> > which can cooperate on robot projects?
> > Is there another school with robotics club which agrees to collaborate
> > with you?
>
> 1. it'll take too long to look for such cooperation, so i don't see how
> we'll be doing it _this_ year.
About this we are in agreement. I hope you have somewhere a TODO list
hot and ready to receive those additional suggestions.
> 2. if this year will go well, next year we'll teach them C.
Why? If they are the same pupils, then teach them advanced topics in
Python programming.
C should be taught to those, who want/need exposure to assembly
language.
> 4. the kids have no time to yet another course - they have hard time
> keeping up with school work, plus quite a few seem to have various other
> afternoon activities ("Hoogim", cisco's "Neta" program, etc.).
They do not have to be the same kids.
I do not know of any reason why not to have two groups of kids (even
from different schools), one group builds robots and the other group
writes the control software for those robots.
> for example - can you check what options exist in this direction, where
> they can be purchased in israel, for how much? and how to get info about
> controlling them via a PC?
At the moment I feel too committed to promise to do anything in this
direction. But I'll keep an eye open in case I stumble upon relevant
information.
--- Omer
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