On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Omer Zak wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 04:42 +0200, guy keren wrote:
>
> > 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.
not teaching them C will mean they'll be cripled. i have some good reasons
to teach them C - one of them being that the army can offer interesting
roles for high-school kids with background and experience in Linux and
C/assembly programming.
> > 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.
it's not as if we have hundreads of kids waiting in line to learn it all.
it is also not as if we have tens of volunteers standing in line to give
courses for free (or even not for free, i imagine). the same kids that
want to learn programming, will most likely want to learn about robotics.
> 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.
if you can find someone _else_ (not me) that will manage the robotics
course and give it - give me their names. note that in hatzor i already
had the beaurocratic work done for me by yael (getting the school into the
thing, recruiting the first children, recruiting people to prepare the
linux infrastructure in the school, getting tel-hai college to give
perach scolarships to 2 students that'll help us with the activities
in the school all year long...). this leaves me free to concentrate on the
programming course.
there is one school that's now passing through a lot of work for a more
ambitous project - which is the shevach school in tel-aviv. they, however,
seem to have enough funding to hire people, instead of relying on
volunteers work.
> > 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.
then until you come up with more concrete ideas, or manage to convince
someone else to do this, i guess this direction is dead-end.
--
guy
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or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
