Re: Forth for Kids

From	"Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Forth for Kids
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Date	2013-05-14 19:25 +0100
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hughaguilar96@yahoo.com wrote:

[%X]  --- stuff about boring desk-top computing  --- [%X]

> I think that Dirk's suggestion is best --- that kids could get interested
> in Forth within the context of a micro-controller (the MSP430). The
> micro-controller could be used out in the real-world --- the "real-world"
> being defined as pretty much anywhere other than the classroom.

I spent yesterday evening at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory on the 
University of Weste of England Campus. I was there to attend a talk on 
Advanced Robotics organised by the IET and BCS as a joint venture. Prior to 
the talk we were allowed to wander around the lab and see the range of work 
that they were doing. To say it is a wonderful playground is definitely 
understating it.

To get youngsters interested again you have got to move mechanisms under the 
control of a number of micro-controllers. Cranes, robotic manipulators, 
animatronics etc. Lots of exiting stuff there to garner the imagination of 
the younger generation. 

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Re: Forth for Kids hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-05-14 00:45 -0700
  Re: Forth for Kids Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-05-14 06:30 -0400
  Re: Forth for Kids "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2013-05-14 19:25 +0100
    Re: Forth for Kids visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2013-05-14 15:32 -0700
  Re: Forth for Kids lynx <rinkasu@kaze.void.null> - 2013-05-14 18:29 +0000
    Re: Forth for Kids Pablo Hugo Reda <pabloreda@gmail.com> - 2013-05-14 13:42 -0700
    Re: Forth for Kids hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-05-14 18:37 -0700
      Re: Forth for Kids lynx <rinkasu@kaze.void.null> - 2013-05-15 03:43 +0000

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