[IAEP] Alternative 'favorites view' as an intro to programming

[Rita Freudenberg]

Hi Chris,

do the students have former experience with programming? If not, I would show them Etoys or Turtle Art first, so that they have an understanding of what it means to send commands to the computer. Then you could built on this and starting to be more abstract about how you can send commands to the computer using text in files instead of tiles in a graphical environment. 
I think that the most difficult thing here is to get the students make the connection between the text they type and what happens on the computer. My own experience is not with 4th or 5th graders, but university students, and it takes some time for them to get it.

Greetings,
Rita

On Jul 20, 2011, at 11:54 PM, Christopher Lindgren wrote:

> Hi, everyone,
> 
> This is my first time emailing this list, but I've been reading for awhile now. I was wondering if I could request some help with an idea that I was thinking about doing with my SoaS project.
> 
> I want to provide an engaging mini-lesson introducing the architecture of Sugar (python) to 4th and 5th graders. To do so, I thought that the favorites view modification would be a fun way to show them how there is code underneath this GUI, and you can change the code to change the WYSIWYG.
> 
> Anyways, I am wondering how to go about this, using the latest mirabelle soas image? I have seen this wiki page: (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hacking_Sugar#Emulation_Images), but I do not know how to view this source file. I only know how to do the "View Source" for the activities in Sugar.
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Chris Lindgren | fargoxo.wordpress.com
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