[Its.an.education.project] Further training

[Walter Bender]

+1. Computation is an important "thing to think with", whether or not
one aspires to be a computer scientist. There are many powerful ideas
that are readily accessible through computation, not the least of
which is the concept of debugging. I feel strongly that we should try
to reach every child with these tools. Those who want to go further
will, because we'll have provided them scaffolding.

-walter

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at vpri.org> wrote:
> At Wed, 7 May 2008 19:47:44 -0400,
>
> C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>  >
>  > 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.
>
>   Thanks.  The 80% doesn't have to learn programming for programming's
>  sake, but still I dream that they learn it for a way to express ideas
>  that are suitable to be expressed in some form and used more "daily
>  basis".
>
>  A kids' version of "A multimedia approach"
>  (http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mediaComp-plan/uploads/1/Python-mediacomp-book.jpg)
>  might be useful.
>
>  -- Yoshiki
>
>   It seems that I'm going to go there, too.
>
>
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