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I remember we had that turtle system (logo?) in third grade. I never once realized I was programming! I thought it was just a dumb game to make a turtle move.
by tocomment 14y ago
I remember we had that turtle system (logo?) in third grade.
I never once realized I was programming! I thought it was just a dumb game to make a turtle move. And I remember always wishing I could learn how to program a computer at that age. If they had told me that's what I was doing I probably would have been more interested.
I guess the moral is to not abstract too much of the system from the child. Maybe they want to see variables, and print statements.
- gkwelding 14y agoGood point but I think for children as young as 5 the RoboMind system works very well. Most kids struggle to read/write at that age and a true programming language would probably be a bit of a struggle.