[Edu-sig] OO in K-12

[Jason Cunliffe]

> Is anyone aware of a book that does more to elaborate the idea
> of a class hierarchy with more analogies to biology i.e. to
> taxonomy (the "tree of life" in the sense of branching phyla,
> species etc.).  I found at least one URL making the link, but
> it's not developed: http://www.cis.ufl.edu/~jnw/CIS4930/Lectures/l13.html
> (see bottom of page).  More likely, given the engineering focus,
> we're going to see a fax machine as a subclass of the more generic
> telephone.

Perhaps it is out of date and not 'bio' enough for you, but there was nice 3
volume illustrated set of LOGO books that came out some years ago, where
plant forms were in some very nice ways explored.Sorry I dont have refs
handy for these.

The other is the classic 'Turtle Geometry' which had some great stuff by
inference.
Turtle Geometry : The Computer As a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (Mit
Press Series in Artificial Intelligence)
by Harold Abelson, Andrea A. Disessa (Contributor
Paperback Reprint edition (September 1986)
MIT Press; ISBN: 0262510375

There is so much more that has happened with the past 10 years though.

I am sure it is time for a new classic:

"Biometry: exploring A-life and ecosystems with object-oriented programming"

- Jason