This reminds me of my computer classes back in grade school where we used TRS-80 computer and a language that used what was called a mouse to draw shapes. You told the mouse how far to draw a line, what degrees to turn and continue to draw and you did this in steps. Watching the turtle draw the square took me back to that as it looks identical to what we used to do but easier since it uses newer programming language(s). what took us a dozen lines of code takes one line in this example.
This reminds me of my computer classes back in grade school where we used TRS-80 computer and a language that used what was called a mouse to draw shapes. You told the mouse how far to draw a line, what degrees to turn and continue to draw and you did this in steps. Watching the turtle draw the square took me back to that as it looks identical to what we used to do but easier since it uses newer programming language(s).
@MrFooFooDog I'm not sure I understand your comment. Are you concerned about the method of teaching programming? or do you disagree with the setup of the personal computer we used to record the video?
All well and good. Maybe you can also teach they kids they do not have to log into the machine as Administrator for the most part. To create small basic programs for instance.
This is a really great, succinct introduction to the method of teaching you guys use that enables developers and/or teachers to instantly see how your classes are structured - well done!
In fact, even if a computing teacher watches this, but doesn't end up using your lesson plans, this basic but powerful approach should give them some ideas on how to make their own lessons more engaging for kids, which is really cool!
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mnygreen1 1 week ago
This reminds me of my computer classes back in grade school where we used TRS-80 computer and a language that used what was called a mouse to draw shapes. You told the mouse how far to draw a line, what degrees to turn and continue to draw and you did this in steps. Watching the turtle draw the square took me back to that as it looks identical to what we used to do but easier since it uses newer programming language(s). what took us a dozen lines of code takes one line in this example.
xycadium 8 months ago
This reminds me of my computer classes back in grade school where we used TRS-80 computer and a language that used what was called a mouse to draw shapes. You told the mouse how far to draw a line, what degrees to turn and continue to draw and you did this in steps. Watching the turtle draw the square took me back to that as it looks identical to what we used to do but easier since it uses newer programming language(s).
xycadium 8 months ago
@MrFooFooDog I'm not sure I understand your comment. Are you concerned about the method of teaching programming? or do you disagree with the setup of the personal computer we used to record the video?
isidoreus 1 year ago
Running XP in a VM on a MAC to teach coding. God awful posers. Just goes to show, those who can't do, teach.
MrFoofoodog 1 year ago
All well and good. Maybe you can also teach they kids they do not have to log into the machine as Administrator for the most part. To create small basic programs for instance.
MrFoofoodog 1 year ago
This is a really great, succinct introduction to the method of teaching you guys use that enables developers and/or teachers to instantly see how your classes are structured - well done!
In fact, even if a computing teacher watches this, but doesn't end up using your lesson plans, this basic but powerful approach should give them some ideas on how to make their own lessons more engaging for kids, which is really cool!
g01dHaCkEr 1 year ago
I'm excited about your work on this stuff and I have a question.
At 1:44 it sounds like "do the same thing you saw, the first time with the students the second time it's the kids."
I'm confused, I thought the students were the kids.
DonDecosta 1 year ago
@DonDecosta yeah, that was a mistake. it's kids do it 1st, teachers do it second to show some of the sublet aspects.
isidoreus 1 year ago