On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:09, Jan Wildeboer wrote:
> The advantage of Arduino is that you can tap into the wisdom of a big
> community. You can invite people to explain, assist from that community. And
> share your results with the community.
>
> Having that integrated is key IMHO.
Absolutely. I
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Subject: Re: [TOS] Teaching Programming in High School
> BTW: In our fi
> BTW: In our first meeting I mentioned to him the
> Arduino boards and he was not familiar with them.
> He has been using PIC processors for a while it
> seems, but was not very happy with the fact that
> their software has restrictive licenses.
The AVR uses ANSI standard C (so you can use gcc an
Matthew Jadud wrote:
> When working at the high school level, I really want to stress the
> importance of success. Especially when working with these
>
I'd like to voice a strong second for this point. For the last two
summers, I have taught a Java course for high schoolers and (a few)
middle
Matt,
Thanks a lot for sharing your experiences.
I think that many people will benefit if you blog
about this at opensource.com.
BTW: In our first meeting I mentioned to him the
Arduino boards and he was not familiar with them.
He has been using PIC processors for a while it
seems, but was not v
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 14:03, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> I will appreciate if anyone want to share experiences
> teaching software at this level, and can suggest
> good resources to use.
When working at the high school level, I really want to stress the
importance of success. Especially when working w
I'm advising a High School teacher who is putting
together a computer programming course.
We are thinking along the lines of
* Basic electronics with PIC processors
* Assembly
* C
* Robot programming with VEX
The underlying idea is to make sure that students
have ample oppor
