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Re: new pics on legomindstorms.com
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 14 Jul 1999 03:27:17 GMT
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Luis Villa <liv@duke%SayNoToSpam%.edu>
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I already oopsed on the age thing... but as for the rest, I agree that it
is certainly possible to learn the stuff- I started with basic at 8. But
the difference was that I had a reasonably clueful teacher to teach me- I
don't think that my step-mother will be teaching any coding classes soon,
and I wonder how many other parents will. In that sense, making parents
make sense of it is just as important, if not more so. I would love to
see Lego do this right- I want the company to be around in 10-15 years
for my kids. I just hope it works out for them, and they can find a
balance which doesn't scare off kids, but which allows for powerful
hardware for those of us who can use it in other ways. At the moment, I
get the feeling that the balance is too far towards ease of use. We'll
see with 1.5, I guess.
-Luis
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Marty wrote:
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> Luis Villa wrote:
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> >
> > > Besides, many kids these days already have the knowledge on how programming
> > > flow works (if->then->else, while->do, etc),
> >
> > Not real sure about that- my half-sister is often called by other adults
> > "scarily bright," and has received about as good an education as $$$ can
> > buy in the states. I'm sure she has the concepts, but not the language-
> > and that is what you need. Whether it is a graphical language or a text
> > based one (like we are used to) I'm not sure even she'd have the patience
> > to learn it, and she has more patience than any 8 year old I've ever met.
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> I learnt to program when I was 10, since I did classes on how to program in Logo and a very small amount of Pascal. I also taught myself basic
> around the same time. Most of my programming ability (which isn't that much), remains from those distant days (though I am only 23).
> Thus I think that kids are probably quite capable in programming much more complex programs than are possible with the language that comes with the
> mindstorms kit, especially if it is graphical in nature. Also, the kit we get here (in Australia), has the recommended age as 13 years and up (if I
> remember correctly).
>
> Thats just my opinion,
> Marty.
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