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I really like snap and scratch, and I think they're part of the right approach, but I can already here "those kids" (you know who they are) talking about how wh
by kmenzie 11y ago
I really like snap and scratch, and I think they're part of the right approach, but I can already here "those kids" (you know who they are) talking about how whichever students had to take the snap class were dumber, and couldn't really code, and weren't 'real cs majors'-- probably before lecture in some early college cs class while the snap kids are sitting around them.
To be clear, I don't have a solution to this part of the problem, but I think that moment (listening to 'those kids' talk about who the 'real hackers' are) can lose as many non-typical engineers as the moment when they have to install their first IDE
- quadrature 11y agoWell if everyone took snap as part of the curriculum then you probably won't have that problem. You will always have varying competencies in education.
- analog31 11y agoThe younger you get kids, the better, before they have learned those sorts of stereotypes. Also, at a younger age, programming doesn't have to be taught as "computer science." It can just be an activity. For me, it was "real programmers don't use BASIC." I let my productivity speak for itself, in things like student research projects.