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If you find this kind of stuff interesting/challenging, you might want to read some stuff from Seymour Papert who dedicated large portion of his life to figurin
by romaniv 9y ago
If you find this kind of stuff interesting/challenging, you might want to read some stuff from Seymour Papert who dedicated large portion of his life to figuring exactly this: how to teach kids to program. His definition of "programming" was a bit broader, though.
http://papert.org/ http://papert.org/
- contingencies 9y agoWorking link http://www.papert.org/ http://www.papert.org/ Alan Kay on kids... Children need to learn how to use the 21st century, or there's a good chance they will lose the 21st century. - Alan Kay (2016) Television is the last technology we should be allowed to invent without a Surgeon General's warning on it. - Alan Kay With a good programming language and interface, one - even children - can create from scratch important simulations of complex non-linear systems that can help one's thinking about them. - Alan Kay (2016) Most of my ideas come in "waking dreams" (this is a state that most children indulge in readily, but it can be retained in a more or less useful way - I don't think you quite get into adulthood by retaining it, so it's a tradeoff). Main thing about ideas is that, however they come, most of them are mediocre down to bad - so steps have to be taken to deal with this major problem. - Alan Kay (2016) ... from my fortune clone, http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup