[CoLoCo] programming class at middle school

[NerdyNick]

Thinking about the teaching sequential steps question. One of
the exercises we had, to help teach that, was the Peanut Butter and
Jelly sandwich exercise. Basically the students each write in as much
detail the steps to create a PB&J. Then to show the importance of not
missing something in the sequence, basically don't assume anything, the
teach would take a few of them and attempt to make the sandwich. Taking
each step literally. You end up showing that if you don't explain how to
apply jelly, or something a long those lines, you can really mess up the
outcome.


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:06 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>wrote:

> Light-bot looks awesome. My kid and I both hated Scratch. Wanted to love
> it, but hated it.
>
> Also, I love C, BASIC, JavaScript, Python, bash, and StarBasic.
>
> My opinion: The easier it is to get some action, for example, to write the
> quintessential beginner program: "hello, $name. $x + $y = sum($x,$y)" the
> better the language is for beginners. The easier it is to REALLY apply that
> action to the real world and do something useful or amusing, the better.
> The easier it is to modularize little programs into big ones, the better.
>
> What happened to TIE this year?
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 01:38:15PM -0600, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> > >Joey, that lightbot game is cool. I see how the idea of sequential
> > >steps
> > >relates to programming but is there some way in which you would use
> > >this
> > >beyond that or is just a fun way to make a point?
> >
> > Have a look at:
> > http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/141/lightbotintro.html
> >
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