Re: [racket-users] Getting young children started with Racket

2018-03-05 Thread Matthias Felleisen
> On Mar 5, 2018, at 4:47 AM, HiPhish wrote: > > As for Racket, I'm not quite sure. ... > immutability and functional programming are a bit harder to wrap your mind > around than the usual way of giving the computer a sequence of instructions to > follow. Do you also think that calculating is h

Re: [racket-users] Getting young children started with Racket

2018-03-03 Thread Neil Van Dyke
I think it would be a shame *not* to put many things in front of children, during the super-brain-sponge years, as unpressured and unstructured play, and see what interests them, and answer their questions, and occasionally inject new things they can do with it. Most programming is too abstrac