On 1999-06-01 or said:
>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.
Sounds neet!
>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.
This reminds me of the time
when I was in high school, the teacher that tought computer
basic refused to except me into his class, to add insult to injury my
counsiliers and principal wore on his side, so I didn't take the computer
basic classes. <$#@%>EM
>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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