Guille's LOOP? On Wednesday, November 6, 2013, wrote:
> roberto.mine...@usi.ch wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to hear an opinion from you. I need to organize a 3-day >> project with high-school students. In short they will come to our >> University and I am the responsible to guide them to do “something” to >> introduce them to programming. >> >> The assumption is that they have zero background about programming. In >> this mailing list I’ve read a couple of previous discussions about how to >> start to use Pharo and ST for educational purposes, but I’d love to collect >> additional opinions. >> >> Visual programming is one of the thing that came to my mind. I though >> about Phratch. Michele suggested me to look also at Etoys (squeakland.org) >> and I will start to look at thesee two tools in the next days. >> >> Any opinion, proposal, tool, article, suggestion, hint on the topic is >> really welcome. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Roberto >> >> >> >> >> > Three days is not long if they are starting from zero. See if you can > prime them by getting them to first play the game Kodable on the iPad, > before they get there. Then you'll have more impact. I have my young kids > playing it and its worth trying it out yourself. > > cheers -ben > > -- --- Philippe Back Dramatic Performance Improvements Mob: +32(0) 478 650 140 | Fax: +32 (0) 70 408 027 Mail:p...@highoctane.be | Web: http://philippeback.eu Blog: http://philippeback.be | Twitter: @philippeback Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/philippeback/videos High Octane SPRL rue cour Boisacq 101 | 1301 Bierges | Belgium Pharo Consortium Member - http://consortium.pharo.org/ Featured on the Software Process and Measurement Cast - http://spamcast.libsyn.com Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Ability Engineering EADocX Value Added Reseller
