--- Jim Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erik Hansen wrote: > > > >to get Turtle Graphics back on the map will > >require standalone teacher-proof teaching > >sequences that capable teachers can extend in > >their own way. i still think TG is the most > >intuitive way to learn geometry and > programming > >and look forward to the new release.
> Ah, a kindred spirit! > > I have long had a special interest in using > xTalk & TG as means to > teach programing to science students. In 1985 I > wrote a short book > (Logo Physics, Holt Rinehart & Winston) hoping > to kick start the > process. > > It didn't fare very well. I don't think Logo is > the right language. The primary appeal of Logo > (a poor man's version of LISP) was TG. i used your book from the Cal Poly SLO library and got a lot out of it. the bouncing ball... > I have translated/revamped that book into a > text for High School students but it exists > only as a Word document at the present time. > > I am sure Erik is right about the serious > roadblocks to putting > x-Talk and TG into the the school curriculum. > Most High Schools are > very rigidly institutions. i was thinking more about the need for tutorials that would stand alone in case capable teachers are absent. > I have sent a Transcript/TG Demo stack to > Heather to post on the Rev > web site. (I hope it goes into the Educators > page. I don't think > this will have much appeal to developers. My > apologies for taking up > this much space already.) if students learn to program, they will get more out of the developers' work! > I can also include the Word ms. which might > serve as an open-source text for such a course. > > As a physicist, you might imagine that the book > is dominated by > physics, and you would be right, but there is > some biology and a fair > bit of mathematics. > > Jim Hurley > Emeritus Prof. of Physics, Univ. of Calif. > -- > Jim Hurley ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikhansen.org __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
