Now imagine an LC toy in the app store. On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> I don't know. > > BUT . . . > > Today I had a classroom of 9-10 year olds doing simple Mathematics with > BBC BASIC in BBC Micro emulators > > [ http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/ ] > > and one kid really "made my day" when he said, "Wow, this is serious > programming, > not like that baby Scratch thing." > > Research seems to suggest that while children rapidly become adept at > assembling sub-Super Mario type > games in Scratch and related block-coding things the theory that they will > easily transition from that to > programming-qua-programming is not true owing to they not having got the > simple stuff of: > > constants, variables, strings, looping and branching > > under their belts in a readily transferrable form. > > Richmond. > > On 6/14/17 5:53 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: > >> On 06/13/2017 10:26 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: >> >> Death By Scratch: https://community.tes.com/thre >>> ads/death-by-scratch.670594/ >>> >> >> !!! Is that *the* Rick Rubin? >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ 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
