From: sjw <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Just a Thought
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:12:26 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2009-11-13T02:12:26-08:00 [thread overview]
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On Nov 13, 6:35 am, Georg Maubach <nob...@nowhere.org> wrote:
> in the last years efforts have been made to make programming easier and
> understandble by kids.
>
> What if we would apply this approach to the Ada programming language?
> This means that we could write programs using icons and put together the
> commands in a graphical manner. This would lead to easier programming,
> faster bug fixing and better programs.
Most of the children in the classes I hear of (girls about 10)
consider they've done OK if they can get Mindstorms to drive a robot
fron one side of the room to another while playing a merry tune.
Personally I think the school are to be congratulated on running a
class with real physical models; it'd be so easy to use virtual models
instead, and the children'd lose all that peskiness of real stuff.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-13 6:35 Just a Thought Georg Maubach
2009-11-13 8:07 ` tmoran
2009-11-13 9:57 ` Rick
2009-11-13 18:00 ` jpwoodruff
2009-11-13 8:18 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2009-11-13 9:53 ` Peter Hermann
2009-11-13 8:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-11-13 10:12 ` sjw [this message]
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