On 04/03/18 13:31, Prabhakar Ragde wrote: > > I used Racket with both my children at age 9. Here is a short writeup > about it originally posted to this mailing list. > > https://web.archive.org/web/20080612194829/http://home.adelphi.edu/sbloch/class/hs/testimonials/prabhakar.shtml > > In answer to your questions, I would say (1) Demo it and see what they > think, but let it be their decision; (2) Yes, the best one I know of!; > (3) They need the potential to grasp the abstractions that an identifier > may refer to a specific value or may range over all values, and the > ability to distinguish those two situations. Seven might be a bit young, > but you know your child best. Bootstrap did not exist when my children > were the right age, and I would definitely think about that now. > > Neil is right that some light instruction combined with suggested but > not required exercises and encouragement to explore is best. Of course > that has to be tailored to the situation. Exploration can be frustrating > if things are obscure or counterintuitive. And my younger child wanted > to learn how to use Terminal in OS X by typing things into it. I had to > explain why that was dangerous! --PR > >
Thanks for the writeup. Many interesting ideas on this thread, however I do feel from reading up on this that 7 y.o / 1st grade might be a bit too young (maybe not age wise but certainly school year wise) -- Germany starts off kids in school a bit later than in the UK. Therefore she is just starting to read/write. I will nonetheless try to show her the DrRacket REPL and see what she makes of it following suggestions elsewhere in this thread. Thanks, -- Paulo Matos -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
