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Bootstrap is working on a high school physics curriculum for ninth graders, which integrates functional programming as a fundamental component. They only have a
by alew1 9y ago
Bootstrap is working on a high school physics curriculum for ninth graders, which integrates functional programming as a fundamental component. They only have a landing page up at the moment [0], but I attended a very cool workshop they gave this summer. They’ve designed the programming language to avoid any “incidental complexity”—Physics teachers only have to teach the CS that’s absolutely necessary for the physics education goals they’re trying to achieve.
[0] http://www.bootstrapworld.org/materials/spring2018/courses/physics/ http://www.bootstrapworld.org/materials/spring2018/courses/p...
- nikofeyn 9y agoas a note for others, the programming language they developed and use is pyret. https://www.pyret.org https://www.pyret.org