Or, put it another way:
Maybe I'm just grasping for a consistent way to talk about things in
Livecode
to young children . . ..
Richmond.
On 19.06.2016 17:47, Richmond wrote:
"My goal" is to get young children interested in programming
computers, and so that those
who have more than a passing interest generated by the classes can
continue by themselves.
There are 3 things that have to be considered in "my goal":
1. Those kids who continue rely fairly heavily on what they find in
the Dictionary (which can be confusing).
2. Those kids are neither native speakers of English (nor, frankly,
does Bulgarian contain obvious cognates as do languages such as
Vlaams, Nederlaans, Frisian, Platt-Deutsch or Doric Scots), nor is
their standard of English at anywhere near a near-native like competence.
3. While, with Primary-level children, an element of simplification
has to take place, I have no
desire to dumb-down things to such an extent that those children who
wish to to extend their skills
with Livecode (or other programming languages) are unable to owning to
a mis-match between the way I have presented Livecode and what they
find "out in the wild".
Richmond.
On 19.06.2016 17:32, Mark Schonewille wrote:
If your goal is to teach computer science, you really should stop
calling controls objects, but if your goal is to teach LiveCode,
perhaps it would be easier for them to use the word object for now.
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Op 19 jun. 2016 om 16:28 heeft Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>
het volgende geschreven:
So:
Should I stop using the word 'Object' for Buttons, Fields and so on
while
teaching children, and make sure I refer to all of those things as
'Controls'; even if only
for the simple reason that the menus keep referring to 'Controls'?
Richmond.
On 19.06.2016 10:19, Richmond wrote:
I am currently teaching some children Livecode programming and ran
into some difficulty
on Friday when a child asked me why the menus were full of the word
"Control"
when I had been talking about "Objects".
Well?
How about changing every use of the word "Control" to "Object"?
Enhancement Request 17879
Richmond.
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