On 24 Oct, 2005, at 19:50, guy keren wrote:
How about something having to do with robots?With robots you still
can
do pretty cool things after a short course.
Here is an interesting example of a book called "Squeak: Learn
Programming with Robots" <http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/botsinc/>. The
book
use of the rich multimedia environment of Squeak to create robots
simulations.
this is exactly like logo - instead of turtle graphics, you get bot
graphics.
i think omer was talking about real, mechanical robots.
Yes, the examples are not very different from logo graphics. But the
students learn real programing language while doing logo like graphics,
and can continue to do other stuff, like simulation, interactivity etc.
Install <http://www.squeakland.org/detect.html> and then check
<http://squeakland.org/kids/sqfest_2004.htm> some of the works are by
4th grade children!
Best Regards,
Nir Soffer
