Few months back I was tutoring a group of 6th standard studentss.So I introduced programming by teaching them Alice - www.alice.org. And then I realized that understanding "why to program?" was a lot more important than "how to program?" - a confusion I had when in the 6th standard.Though I enjoyed GWBASIC a lot then , I never really felt the greater importance of programming until I was in my 2nd year of college.So I retracked and instead started with teaching them effective ways of playing battleships using common search methods in algorithms etc....just wanted to share a personal experience.[:)]
On 9/30/09, Amit Saha <lists.amits...@gmail.com> wrote: > Srijayanth Sridhar wrote: >> Not sure how many people here were taught Logo as their first language. I >> was, and most people regard it as a toy language because most teachers >> focus >> exclusively on the graphical aspects of the language. However, few know >> that >> Logo was inspired by Lisp and can handle fairly decent logical stuff too. >> I >> would really like to see Logo used more fully in this regard. > > I, for one came to know this, well after 6 years of finishing my Class 12! > > -Amit >> >> Jayanth >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> BangPypers mailing list >> BangPypers@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > -- > Journal: http://amitksaha.wordpress.com > ยต-blog: http://twitter.com/amitsaha > IRC: cornucopic on #scheme, #lisp, #math, #linux > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- "A mind stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions" _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
