Kirby wrote >We're no longer talking about kid-friendly programming though. This >is about adult application developers who want to save time, >especially when it comes to visually designing a user interface from >palettes of canned widgets. > > I never thought that the discussion was necessarily just making something that is kid-friendly, but I think that would be a possible benefit. I personally would love to have this sort of tool - mostly for learning purposes and being able to follow code.
I would be willing to work on this sort of project - especially if it had as ONE of its focus tools for teaching programming concepts. I homeschool my children and have tried to figure out how to teach them programming. I know that there is alot of great books and other tools out there for this, but alot of it is an issue of time. If I could be working on a project with my children and the tools were easy enough for them to use - then I would be able to work with them more. Kirby also wrote earlier >Given Python is so OO, my first concern would be whether this >flowchart-driven system would push us back to a more loopy/blocky >procedural style. I'd like to see what this would look like on paper >before I was persuaded it was a worthwhile undertaking -- not that I'm >any kind of gatekeeper or funder in this regard, so pay no attention. > Even in OO programming there is still plenty that is procedural based within objects and methods. Of course - I don't know that I fully use the power of OO in my programming style rather just using a class as a wrapper for a bunch of procedures. Trent Oliphant _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
