Hi all
We had a discussion regarding this at PPIG 2007 in Joensuu. In my
opinion there is too much emphasis on Lego Mindstorms and introducing
kids to programming using robots. I was at a meeting once where someone
professed that if you aren't interested in Mindstorms or robots you
won't be
We're seeing a lot of use of both Alice and the new MIT Scratch with children.
We're successfully using Python for media computation with children as young as
11 years old.
Mark
Can anyone point me to any research results that show that teaching kids
to program has any transfer to other areas?
Last I followed this kind of thing, the results were negative - teaching
programming doesn't have any more of
a beneficial effect on, say, mathematics than time spent directly on
Marian Petre and I have written a paper, to be presented at VL/
HCC 2007, which sets out to describe what kids *actually* want to
program, as opposed to what adults think would be good for them.
Anyone who wants a preview, I'm sure Marian won't mind if I
offer preview copies to anyone who
Walter Milner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A while back Papert in Mindstorms proposed that young children be taught to
program in Logo, and that this would enhance their cognitive development and
expose them to 'powerful ideas'.
I don't know if the programming language has as much of an impact as
