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> On Aug 13, 2015, at 12:28 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > > Send use-livecode mailing list submissions to > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > use-livecode-ow...@lists.runrev.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of use-livecode digest..." > > > you can find the archives for this list at: > > http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/ > > and search them using this link: > > http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:lists.runrev.com > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: lcVCS in the LC Forums (Monte Goulding) > 2. Re: lcVCS in the LC Forums (Monte Goulding) > 3. Re: lcVCS in the LC Forums (Richmond) > 4. 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Re: Business Application Framework (Kevin Miller) > 21. Re: Business Application Framework (J. Landman Gay) > 22. Re: Restore corrupted stack (J. Landman Gay) > 23. How to Create a Free iOS Provisioning Profile (Jana Doughty) > 24. Re: Describing LiveCode (EED-wp Email) > > > ----- > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > Thanks! > > Jana Doughty > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 24 > Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 09:28:17 -0700 > From: EED-wp Email <proth...@earthednet.org> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Subject: Re: Describing LiveCode > Message-ID: <7d05f1b0-5ea2-4e4a-86fd-31fc37721...@earthednet.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > This is a great way to learn programming, but there are a few caveats that > might be considered. > > As I learned to program, i could never get thru more than one lecture > (pascal). Ungodly boring! I needed a project and the docs. However, other > folks may have different learning styles. Some may be very persistent, > working until they get a solution. Others may need more motivation or self > confidence to get to a solution. Some learn well from documents. Others may > be more visual learners and need to be shown. > > Livecode seems to lend itself very well for a variety of learning styles, so > perhaps a variety of teaching methods should be incorporated into a single > course. > > Bill > > William Prothero > http://ed.earthednet.org > >> On Aug 13, 2015, at 1:38 AM, Mick Collins <mickc...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> Just my 2 cents worth: >> >> When I was studying math as an undergraduate and as a graduate student, many >> of the classes were taught by the (R. L.) Moore Method. In this method the >> professor gives axioms, definitions and just the statements of the theorems. >> The students have to prove the theorems themselves. The class time is nearly >> all spent with students presenting their proofs (lower (higher) ability >> students present the more easy (difficult) theorems, sometimes more than one >> proof presented so students see them from different angles). The students >> get a very deep understanding of the ideas involved because they?ve had to >> look at them from a lot of different angles and see what will work. It can >> be easily seen who is working at it and who not (thus providing some kind of >> evidence for a grade, although in our classes, very few slacked off AT ALL). >> >> My suggestion is a variation on this method for ?teaching" Livecode. >> Students would be assigned several tiny projects at a time with maybe one or >> two new mini-concepts per project, having been given what the GUI for the >> project looks/operates like and a few words to look up in the dictionary and >> other places. In the Moore method, there are no textbooks nor >> outward-directed research of any kind ? that, of course, wouldn?t work here >> because of the difference between computers and mathematics, but limits can >> be set so that they are largely doing it on their own. There are many >> variations that could add to the utility, for instance working in pairs, >> where one works on researching the new ideas, the other constructing the GUI >> and scripting, alternating from project to project. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
