> Now this is really very interesting. > > I put some plastic cups on the table and move beans around them and call it a > calculator. > > The I set up an interface with buttons as per a standard Electronic > calculator; > > and a few fields called "cup1", "cup2", "cup3", and so on on RevMedia. > > Then get one kid to move beans around the cups and tell the kid at the > computer things like: > > "put the beans from cup1 and the beans from cup2 into cup3" > > and > > "take the same number of beans as are in cup1 out of cup2 and put them in > cup3" > > then the kids start writing code "under" the '+','-','/' and '*' buttons . . . > > most of these kids are in the 7 - 10 range.
That's gold Richmond. I'm going to try it with my 7 year old. Cheers -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding Software Development Bespoke application development for vertical markets InstallGadget - How to create an installer in 10 seconds revObjective - Making behavior scripts behave _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
