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Re: First Lego League Software
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 23 Dec 1999 03:33:31 GMT
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MATTDM@MATTDMnomorespam.ORG
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J G Gregory <jgg@ultranet.com> wrote:
> Well, I worked with 4th, 5th, and 6th graders, after school, and with
> limited computer resources, and believe me, we barely could get time to deal
> with RCX Code except in a hand-holding way. Maybe if all the kids had RCX's
> and computers at home, but in the typical environment we had, it was not
Well, not to get into "well, when I was a boy" :) but I was in third grade
when I started BASIC programming. I didn't have a computer at home; just
access to the one Apple ][+ in my classroom at school. I'm not bragging or
anything -- while I realize that this isn't _typical_, it's not abnormal
either.
My point isn't that NQC should be forced on all kids. It's that if a kid
wants to and is able to use it, that should be encouraged.
On a related note: it's really unfortunate that the MIT Logo stuff isn't
publicly available. It has the advantage being graphical and about as easy
to learn/use as RCX Code, plus it's a real full-featured programming
language.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| I suppose it all comes down to what the kids can understand. If they all have prior programming experience, then they could probably use NQC, and think that RCX code is a piece of trash. But if they are not experienced in programming then it would (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn862e08.vrj.....bu.edu... (...) Well, I worked with 4th, 5th, and 6th graders, after school, and with limited computer resources, and believe me, we barely could get time to deal with RCX (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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