Control? Object?

[Richmond]

"My goal" is to get young children interested in programming computers, 
and so that those
who have more than a passing interest generated by the classes can 
continue by themselves.

There are 3 things that have to be considered in "my goal":

1. Those kids who continue rely fairly heavily on what they find in the 
Dictionary (which can be confusing).

2. Those kids are neither native speakers of English (nor, frankly, does 
Bulgarian contain obvious cognates as do languages such as Vlaams, 
Nederlaans, Frisian, Platt-Deutsch or Doric Scots), nor is their 
standard of English at anywhere near a near-native like competence.

3. While, with Primary-level children, an element of simplification has 
to take place, I have no
desire to dumb-down things to such an extent that those children who 
wish to to extend their skills
with Livecode (or other programming languages) are unable to owning to a 
mis-match between the way I have presented Livecode and what they find 
"out in the wild".

Richmond.

On 19.06.2016 17:32, Mark Schonewille wrote:
> If your goal is to teach computer science, you really should stop calling controls objects, but if your goal is to teach LiveCode, perhaps it would be easier for them to use the word object for now.
>
> --
> Kind regards,
>
> Mark Schonewille
> Economy-x-Talk
> Http://economy-x-talk.com
>
> Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com
>
>
> Op 19 jun. 2016 om 16:28 heeft Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
>
>> So:
>>
>> Should I stop using the word 'Object' for Buttons, Fields and so on while
>> teaching children, and make sure I refer to all of those things as 'Controls'; even if only
>> for the simple reason that the menus keep referring to 'Controls'?
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
>> On 19.06.2016 10:19, Richmond wrote:
>>> I am currently teaching some children Livecode programming and ran into some difficulty
>>> on Friday when a child asked me why the menus were full of the word "Control"
>>> when I had been talking about "Objects".
>>>
>>> Well?
>>>
>>> How about changing every use of the word "Control" to "Object"?
>>>
>>> Enhancement Request 17879
>>>
>>> Richmond.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> use-livecode mailing list
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
> _______________________________________________
> use-livecode mailing list
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode