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That's interesting. My school in Indiana had a gifted program that taught us the rudiments of Basic programming in almost the exact same way. We used to take ho
by blister 11y ago
That's interesting. My school in Indiana had a gifted program that taught us the rudiments of Basic programming in almost the exact same way. We used to take home grid paper, draw in the pixels where we wanted them, and then write out the code to display them on the screen.
Thus began my life-long love affair with making computers do what I tell them to do. As a 4th grader, even just the exposure of typing words and having graphics show up on the screen was enough to let me know that this was something I would love.
- matthewbauer 11y agoMy school in Kansas had the exact thing too. Oddly enough they still used them ~5 years ago when I checked last.
- jboggan 11y agoI'm guessing it was some sort of standard lesson plan. The problem wasn't with the lesson plan so much as it was being taught by someone who didn't really understand or wasn't personally moved by code. At that age I was the same kid who typed random characters in my Apple IIe at home pretending to be the G.I. Joe "Sci-Fi" who was "hacking" the Cobra Terrordrome. But somehow the static pixel assignment came across as the slowest coloring book ever and I didn't get the point of it at all. What I would have done for a reference manual or any bit of the internet back then. I remember hacking Logowriter to trace out a clock's second hand in 6 degree increments over the course of a minute, but my regular teacher thought it was stupid and told me to finish the assignment drawing squares.