On Feb 28, 5:25 am, mhampton <[email protected]> wrote: > Scratch is great. Its been very successful for me in introducing my > daughter to programming. > > I don't see much possible interaction with Sage, since Scratch is > written in Squeak, and it has a custom (although quite permissive) > license. It might provide some inspiration for making some sort of > visual programming interface in the notebook though, perhaps as some > sort of extension of @interacts. Besides the educational aspect, such > an interface could be very useful to a variety of people such as > modelers (I know a lot of biologists and some engineers who heavily > use such things) or perhaps even in a business environment.
I know people who use it in teaching probability as well - it has some distributions encoded, I guess, and then you write a game. But no, it's probably not a good thing to include in Sage as is. -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
