Bernie wrote:
> >More lego is bought and used by adults than by kids.
>
> Really? Then I will not feel ashamed after buying a X-Wing and TIE fighter
> and playing with them ;)
Computer controled Lego was used for a few years in my country in
schools. (classes 1 to 8). I was in Class 7 when they used it,
and I guess that registering me as one of the kids who will learn
using this system was one of their gratest mistakes.. <EG>
How is this connect to computer interface? Well, that Lego was
controled from the computer by some sort of an extended version
of Logo. It could do Logo drawing, but also send commands via
a special interface to the Lego structure you built.
The thing is that this shows that at first, the eductation ministry
did attempted to teach children to use basic computer language
skills. The course was Logo, then basic. For high-schools it was
computer structer, Pascal, and then assembler. I still think that
the decision to drop these topics and consentrate on basic Windows
handling and Word, Excell, powerpoint and Netscape Communicator
was one of the worst mistakes they did in the computer teaching
field.
BTW, in these "Lego logo" classes, I really was a menace. I used
to build my own devices instead of what the teacher said: a weird
so-called "robot" instead of the "road light", The "theme park"
carrosel operated along the theme music from "Leisure suit Larry",
and later on I built with a friend of mine "The slider of Doom".
Its function: to brake back to lego pieces if you tried to use it.
I even copied the Logo program and brought the copy home so I can
learn all the commands I wasnt seposed to learn.. <sigh> these
were the days! <EG> (still got it on a 360k diskette somewhere..)
Or Botton
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