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I agree, it's hard to actually engage kids with boring games, and anything that involves boiler plate. The boiler plate should just be hidden away if possible.
by eugenekolo2 11y ago
I agree, it's hard to actually engage kids with boring games, and anything that involves boiler plate.
The boiler plate should just be hidden away if possible.
I think a small coding exercise that kids would like is something that automatically solves their simple algebra homework. Although, do 12 year olds just go on wolframalpha now?
- stdbrouw 11y ago> I think a small coding exercise that kids would like is something that automatically solves their simple algebra homework. I don't think recursive tree algorithms and reverse Polish notation, the bedrock of computer algebra systems, would be so much fun to kids. Could you elaborate on what you had in mind?
- adrusi 11y agoBy far the most useful program I wrote as a kid was one that factored polynomials. It ran on the calculator I was allowed on tests.