Yes, I am really asking the question, why try to teach children
programming?
The place where Latin comes in is because Latin was taught in schools
centuries after
it had any major value in every day life. The argument for doing so was
because it disciplined the mind.
What does an economist do when she wants to understand complex economical
systems? She programs a model. What does a physicist do to understand
thermodynamics? Same. So yes, there is something special about programming:
its a medium which allows us to play with ideas. In one of the papers I
/Educational_programming_language )
Chris
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Sent: 01 August 2007 15:49
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Subject: Re: FW: PPIG discuss: teaching kids to program
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
