Supercard 4.8 public beta

[Richmond]

On 15.10.2016 20:41, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Richmond wrote:
>
> > Thank you, Richard Gaskin, for clarifying that.
> >
> > What that does do is confirm my view that teaching children stuff
> > such as Scratch at school has little or no value in the sense that
> > it is NOT a programming language.
>
> I would caution against using the rants of a programmer as a 
> substitute for sound pedagogy. :)
>
> And in all fairness, even in my ignorance of good teaching methods for 
> kids I know just enough about Piaget to have included:
>
>    Scratch is an undeniably valuable tool for young minds.
>
> There's a place for very simple tools in the early stages of 
> introducing kids to algorithmic thinking.  Many times such exercises 
> begin quite well on paper, only later graduating to things like Scratch.
>
> Scratch is accessible because it has well-defined boundaries.
>
> After a series of exercises, those boundaries will become walls.
>
> And that's the moment to introduce scripting.

I would argue that you can do all of that within Livecode, thereby 
avoiding a hiatus as you get kids to transfer.

Richmond.

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