"For Young Coders"

[Mike Kerner]

Now imagine an LC toy in the app store.

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> I don't know.
>
> BUT . . .
>
> Today I had a classroom of 9-10 year olds doing simple Mathematics with
> BBC BASIC in BBC Micro emulators
>
> [ http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/ ]
>
> and one kid really "made my day" when he said, "Wow, this is serious
> programming,
> not like that baby Scratch thing."
>
> Research seems to suggest that while children rapidly become adept at
> assembling sub-Super Mario type
> games in Scratch and related block-coding things the theory that they will
> easily transition from that to
> programming-qua-programming is not true owing to they not having got the
> simple stuff of:
>
> constants, variables, strings, looping and branching
>
> under their belts in a readily transferrable form.
>
> Richmond.
>
> On 6/14/17 5:53 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
>
>> On 06/13/2017 10:26 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
>>
>> Death By Scratch: https://community.tes.com/thre
>>> ads/death-by-scratch.670594/
>>>
>>
>> !!! Is that *the* Rick Rubin?
>>
>>
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