On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 05:07:58 -0700 (PDT) Volker Dobler <dr.volker.dob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But if you try to teach 9 or 10 year old kids to program you cannot > do this in the language alone, you need at least to import fmt. > And while the handful of keywords are not a problem at all the > packages used to do interesting things (for a 9 year old) are > in English only. Sed or gofix can cope with that and it is a duty of the teacher to make a basic packages translation. The more important though are manuals suitable for self-teaching. The [Python for Kids](https://jasonrbriggs.com/python-for-kids/) book has been translated to nine languages. (I hope Jason Briggs will love Go too, and soon come with a new book for kids ;). > Of course I would never advocate to program in Bavarian, or > cuneiform, but if you are starting to learn a real programming > language than there _is_ a language barrier. And this barrier > is in addition to typing on a keyboard and the math and the > logic and everything else. Or it can be a strong impulse to learn English -- like music lyrics is to the less techie kids. > Because of this real problem I thought about some package basic > which could be an atypical collection of useful functions for > educational purpose: Very simple input and output functions, > graphic functions (like points, lines, ellipses, rectangles), > a bit of sound (like 12 different tones and two beeps) with exported > identifiers and the godoc in the child's first language so that a very > young student can explore what is possible in a more appealing > way than just println-based output. Good idea. Ready to be picked up by some Khan Academy contractor. > V. -- Wojciech S. Czarnecki << ^oo^ >> OHIR-RIPE -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
