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It's awesome that you're in high school and you're already checking out Scheme. I did the same thing (I'm a freshman in college now). (: On that note (since I'
by jgg 16y ago
It's awesome that you're in high school and you're already checking out Scheme. I did the same thing (I'm a freshman in college now). (:
On that note (since I'm derailing the topic of conversation anyway), does anyone have experience with teaching Scheme to younger kids? The Little Schemer seems a little too hard for a child, but I think Scheme would make an awesome introduction to programming (or maybe I'm just a horrible language bigot). For the really little ones, I'd probably use Logo.
- URSpider94 16y agoMany years ago, I TA'ed a class that did exactly that, teaching Scheme to gifted students ages 12 to 15. The text we used was "The Schemer's Guide" by Iain Ferguson, supplemented with a large helping of locally-prepared material about propositional logic, recursion, Turing machines, etc. In that way, Scheme comes across as a natural implementation of these concepts. It's worth noting that 90+% of the work in this class, including programming projects, was conducted as pen-and-paper exercises, not on a computer.