Is this asking WHY try to teach children programming?
A possible answer would be that it does something which has a positive
transfer to other areas - and that there is no evidence that it does, or
It produces better commercial programmers whne they grow up - again no
evidence
I'm not sure
. I wonder
whether they might have done even better on the mathematics than the
ToonTalk group.
Ruven Brooks
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: PPIG discuss: teaching kids to program
Is this asking WHY try to teach children programming?
A possible answer would be that it does something which has a positive
transfer to other areas - and that there is no evidence that it does, or
It produces better commercial programmers whne
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What does an economist
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
