[Its.an.education.project] Further training

[C. Scott Ananian]

i spent some time a while ago porting all the 'intro to basic'
programs from my old c64 manual to pippy. you can find the result on
dev.laptop.org/git - look for pippy-examples.  (sorry, i'm on my cell
phone and can't easily get the exact url).

i talk with juliano at fisl this year about assembling a 'learn
python' course using pippy for brazil;  i'm hoping we'll get time to
work on it when he visits this month.
  --scott

On 5/7/08, Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at vpri.org> wrote:
> At Mon, 05 May 2008 22:16:17 +0545,
> Bryan Berry wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 18:18 +0200,
> > Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> > > > We didn't want to teach teachers about programming when many of them
> > > > hadn't yet used a computer in their lives and most have extremely
> > > > limited English skills.
> > >
> > > Heh, this is exactly how people of my age (I'm 33) were exposed
> > > to computers for the first time (I'd play with my friend's VIC20
> > > when we were around 7 or 8).
> > >
> >
> > Agreed, some of the kids at the schools will pick up programming even if
> > limited to none English skills. My comments were directed towards the
> > teachers, not kids. It will take time to introduce programming to them.
>
>   Yes, and let us not get excited to see some small success stories
> too much (how much it is nice).  No matter what it is, some kids get
> it right away, and any education method works for *some* kids.  What
> we should be concerned is the next 80% of kids in the classrooms.
>
> -- Yoshiki
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