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Some similarities with Felleisen's work teaching programming to early high schoolers, - http://www.programbydesign.org/ http://www.programbydesign.org/ Those
by dons 14y ago
Some similarities with Felleisen's work teaching programming to early high schoolers,
- http://www.programbydesign.org/ http://www.programbydesign.org/
Those folks have tons of data on what works, what doesn't.
I get a bit of a NIH feeling from this effort, that I hope is unfounded.
- lacerus 14y agoNIH = Not Invented Here, in case somebody else is wondering also.
- jonahkagan 14y agoAh, so not National Institutes of Health. Makes more sense now
- shardling 14y agoIt is pretty confusing -- maybe we should invent a new acronym for use on HN. >_>
- rabidsnail 14y agoHaving everything run in the browser is a _huge_ win, because it allows students to share what they've made with their friends. Post to facebook "Look what I made", which includes the source and makes it easy for others to modify it and share that themselves. Viral loop!
- soegaard 14y agoIt is possible to use Scheme in the browser too: http://www.wescheme.org/
- rabidsnail 14y agoYes, but it's not possible to run Dr. Scheme in the browser. So there would still have to be a fair amount (ie almost all) of reinvention.