On 6/14/17 8:27 pm, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote:
Now imagine an LC toy in the app store.
Oh, I'm not going to bother waiting for that; the kids have all been
issued with a CD-ROM containing (among other stuff)
a BBC emulator for the 3 dominant OSes and likewise LiveCode 8.1.4.
On Friday we'll be looking at strings in BASIC and "nibbling" bits from
the LEFT, RIGHT and MID
of strings.
On Monday we'll look at loops.
On Wednesday we'll look at branching (IF . . . THEN).
Next we'll start REPLICATING what we did in BASIC in LiveCode
HOWEVER, many of the kids have either Android phones or Android tablets
and did go "Wow" and "Cowabunga"
(OK, that last one's a lie; the Bulgarian equivalent) when they saw
Beebdroid on a couple of Android tablets I have:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beebdroid
the only slight negative thing about it is that one cannot save programs.
So: Yeeeeesss, a cut-down version (I've banged on with that phrase quiet
a lot for a long time) for tablest
would be "rather jolly".
Richmond.
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?
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