At 09:33 PM 1/22/2009 -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote: >On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:09 PM, David MacQuigg wrote: >> I'm putting together a list of topics for a proposed course entitled >> "Programming for Scientists and Engineers". See the link to CS2 under >> http://ece.arizona.edu/~edatools/index_classes.htm. This is intended as a >> follow-on to an introductory course in either Java or C, so the students >> will have some exposure to programming, but the Java students won't know >> machine-level programming, and the C students won't have any OOP. For the >> proposed course, we will use the example programs as a way to introduce >> these topics. > >Earth Treasury might be interested in working with you on this, if you >are willing to have it distributed under a Free license in multiple >languages.
No problem. >We are working on teaching Computer Science ideas in an >age-appropriate manner on the OLPC XO starting in third grade, or if >possible earlier, using Smalltalk, Turtle Art, Logo, Python, and other >powerful tools, and continuing through 12th grade at least. We will >also be using the XO's digital oscilloscope capability (Measure >Activity) to teach science and engineering. I could see some of these CS2 programs being useful for high-school students, especially if they have already learned a computer language. No reason they can't be at the same level in programming as college students in the USA. >The outline of our project, with the names of our confirmed partners >and a few prospective partners we are talking with, is at >http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Creating_textbooks. I had no idea these little laptops could run Linux. Cool. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
