On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
We need a language-independent way of teaching programming concepts. I
have an idea for one based on Turtle Art, which represents programs as
trees, not texts. Most programming languages have to transform texts
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:40 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
We need a language-independent way of teaching programming concepts. I
have an idea for one based on Turtle Art, which represents
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
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= Edward
= Kirby
= Edward
= Kirby
There are several programming languages popular among non-professional
programmers. These languages get no respect in the professional
community, and neither do their
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 23.03.2009, at 10:38, kirby urner wrote:
Not really directed at Turtle Art proposal no.
I think [...] that there's a backlash against lexical coding as that means
typing
Not at all, in my opinion. It's not
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On 23.03.2009, at 10:38, kirby urner wrote:
I think [...] that there's a backlash against lexical coding as that
means
typing
Not at all, in my opinion. It's not against having to type, it's about
covering distance one step at a time.
I like to compare the issue to
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Scott David Daniels
scott.dani...@acm.org wrote:
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This issue is why I am so not in love with fancy aids in generating
code; I want to read what the original programmer wrote, not the pile
of garble that got blasted out when he pushed some buttons and
