From: Wes Groleau <wwgrol@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: Computer Programming for Everybody?
Date: 1999/09/14
Date: 1999-09-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37DE5CA1.22658433@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7rjceh$92t@dfw-ixnews15.ix.netcom.com
> Young students can learn to feel comfortable with computers and
> software using some language that presents programming at the right
> level of abstraction. Logo, Python, or Scheme might be just the
> ticket for this kind of thing. Let the children learn through their
> playthings.
Today's elementary students will all (well, 95%) need to be
comfortable with computers when they are adults. But only
(wild guess) 60% will need to be programmers. So introduce
some sort of computer applications from the beginning, but
save the programming AT LEAST till ten years old. My
nine-year-old son helped me write the PDL (i.e.,
semi-English design language) for an emulation of the TV
game show "Wheel Of Fortune" but the process showed he
wasn't quite ready for programming. (And he's bright enough
to beat me at chess a year after I taught him the game.)
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-10 0:00 Computer Programming for Everybody? Ted Dennison
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Raymond Calande
1999-09-10 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-12 0:00 ` mitch
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Mike Hall
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-13 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-14 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
[not found] ` <7ronav$shf@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
[not found] ` <Pine.HPP.3.93.990915162218.958A-100000@merle.acns.nwu.edu>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
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