[BangPypers] Python at Schools

[shameek ghosh]

Few months back I was tutoring a group of 6th standard studentss.So I
introduced programming by teaching them Alice - www.alice.org. And
then I realized that understanding "why to program?" was a lot more
important than "how to program?" - a confusion I had when in the 6th
standard.Though I enjoyed GWBASIC a lot then , I never really felt the
greater importance of programming until I was in my 2nd year of
college.So I
retracked and instead started with teaching them effective ways of
playing battleships using common search methods in algorithms
etc....just wanted to share a personal experience.[:)]



On 9/30/09, Amit Saha <lists.amitsaha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Srijayanth Sridhar wrote:
>> Not sure how many people here were taught Logo as their first language. I
>> was, and most people regard it as a toy language because most teachers
>> focus
>> exclusively on the graphical aspects of the language. However, few know
>> that
>> Logo was inspired by Lisp and can handle fairly decent logical stuff too.
>> I
>> would really like to see Logo used more fully in this regard.
>
> I, for one came to know this, well after 6 years of finishing my Class 12!
>
> -Amit
>>
>> Jayanth
>>
>>
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