"For Young Coders"

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 6/14/17 8:27 pm, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote:
> Now imagine an LC toy in the app store.

Oh, I'm not going to bother waiting for that; the kids have all been 
issued with a CD-ROM containing (among other stuff)
a BBC emulator for the 3 dominant OSes and likewise LiveCode 8.1.4.

On Friday we'll be looking at strings in BASIC and "nibbling" bits from 
the LEFT, RIGHT and MID
of strings.

On Monday we'll look at loops.

On Wednesday we'll look at branching (IF . . . THEN).

Next we'll start REPLICATING what we did in BASIC in LiveCode

HOWEVER, many of the kids have either Android phones or Android tablets 
and did go "Wow" and "Cowabunga"
(OK, that last one's a lie; the Bulgarian equivalent) when they saw 
Beebdroid on a couple of Android tablets I have:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beebdroid

the only slight negative thing about it is that one cannot save programs.

So: Yeeeeesss, a cut-down version (I've banged on with that phrase quiet 
a lot for a long time) for tablest
would be "rather jolly".

Richmond.

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> 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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