On 20.01.2008, at 17:03, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
http://scratch.mit.edu/
Well, it seems OK if you want to knock out fairly
mindless games and goofy proletarian art.
Sorry, I'm a terrible snob.
Sorry, you are not a snob, you are an ignorant.
It is also "visual programming" and "dataflow" stuff
again.
Just think, for a moment, of a 60 year-old expert in,
let us say, history, who only uses a
computer for typing academic papers and checking
his/her email.
what has this to do, with the "scratch-idea" of showing (young) people
by means of a different GUI how programming works? And give them a
basic understanding what programming is...
I m 53 years old, but not to old to learn with any childrens tool, if
it is well(beter) and brainfriendly designed, and makes it easyier for
me to understand a new theme.
Scratch will not help him/her one little bit.
Nor the Primary Teacher who wants to inculcate basic
French vocab.
you have no idea about visual learning...
regards
wolfgang bereuter
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