Hi,
I often read about schools in the US using Python as a first introduction to
computer programming.
For high school level I know they often use
http://openbookproject.net//thinkCSpy/ as a reference.
For younger kids I think this is a popular one:
http://rur-ple.sourceforge.net/en/rur.htm
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On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 14:48, Bram Braakman wrote:
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> On a side note: I admire how (in the US) they know how to make it sort of
> fun for the kids to learn programming (through games, game-programming or
> things like LEGO Mindstorms/Robotics). I always felt that Dutch schools
> lacked this k
Localization of programming languages is a bad idea.
If you have to learn a new language, switch context, never start
translating.
You don't want to write in fortran-python either.
F
On Oct 2, 2009, at 19:23, Roger Erens wrote:
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 14:48, Bram Braakman
wrote:
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On
Floris van Manen wrote:
Localization of programming languages is a bad idea.
If you have to learn a new language, switch context, never start
translating.
You don't want to write in fortran-python either.
so what about visual programming ?
Stef
F
On Oct 2, 2009, at 19:23, Roger Erens wrote
Floris van Manen wrote:
Localization of programming languages is a bad idea.
If you have to learn a new language, switch context, never start
translating.
You don't want to write in fortran-python either.
Iedereen die aan deze wijze woorden twijfelt moet verplicht voor altijd
terug naar 1997
Hi Floris,
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 23:33, Floris van Manen wrote:
> Localization of programming languages is a bad idea.
Do you have some more convincing evidence?
> If you have to learn a new language, switch context, never start
> translating.
Is switching context how you started learning Eng
don't underestimate our kids, I bet you beer that they can understand hybrid
of your examples, e.g.:
for ding in mijn_list:
print ding
full translation is I think bad idea because people (read this as
small-people :) ) get used to it and don't want to let go so after couple of
years you have t
