Re: [racket] Programming for 9 yo's

2014-06-11 Thread Daniel Prager
There's good stuff on the Computer Science Unplugged site: - Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOYy4kyLEHs - Activities: http://csunplugged.org/activities Dan On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle < spdegabrie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, > I like all these. I'm g

Re: [racket] Programming for 9 yo's

2014-06-11 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Thanks, I like all these. I'm going to run them by the teacher to see what suits best. Thanks again, Stephen On Wednesday, 11 June 2014, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > +1 > > > > On Jun 11, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Sharon Tuttle > wrote: > > > I'll second this -- doing some image operations using the

Re: [racket] Programming for 9 yo's

2014-06-11 Thread Matthias Felleisen
+1 On Jun 11, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Sharon Tuttle wrote: > I'll second this -- doing some image operations using the image teachpack > would give them "cool" feedback quite quickly. > > -- Sharon Tuttle > > > On Jun 11, 2014, at 11:33 AM, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote: > >> Drawing flags using th

Re: [racket] Programming for 9 yo's

2014-06-11 Thread Sharon Tuttle
I'll second this -- doing some image operations using the image teachpack would give them "cool" feedback quite quickly. -- Sharon Tuttle On Jun 11, 2014, at 11:33 AM, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote: > Drawing flags using the image TeachPack? > > /Jens Axel > > > > 2014-06-11 20:14 GMT+02:00 Keya

Re: [racket] Programming for 9 yo's

2014-06-11 Thread Neil Van Dyke
I would pick something very "physical" like robots, music, graphics, 3D printing... Maybe combine the above with a Rasberry Pi or other exposed computer, so that the educational demo is not judged by the slick standards of some rather impressive laptops/tablets/smartphones/gameconsoles that th

Re: [racket] Programming for 9 yo's

2014-06-11 Thread Jens Axel Søgaard
Drawing flags using the image TeachPack? /Jens Axel 2014-06-11 20:14 GMT+02:00 Keyan : > When I was in school, the first program that I wrote was: > > 10 input x > 20 input y > 30 print x + y > > :) > > The next one was a number-guessing program. The software draw a random > number between 1 an

Re: [racket] Programming for 9 yo's

2014-06-11 Thread Keyan
When I was in school, the first program that I wrote was: 10 input x 20 input y 30 print x + y :) The next one was a number-guessing program. The software draw a random number between 1 and 100, and the user had to guess which one by entering numbers. The output of the program was either “low

[racket] Programming for 9 yo's

2014-06-11 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi I've been asked to teach a single lesson for the 9yo's in my sons class. Does anyone have any ideas that would be suitable. They have only had a little exposure to simple logo loops. I was thinking of a simple recursion example but would appreciate any suggestions. Kind regards, Stephen PS I'm