Re: Program or be Programmed !

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From	Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk>
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the_gavino_himself wrote:

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>> I managed to outline the very basics of Forth to a 5 year-old at a recent
>> Imagineering Exhibition. In about 5 minutes spent with him he managed to
>> grasp the concepts of the parameter stack and postfix operations.
>> 
>> He was, to admit, quite bright in that he had suggested a small
>> modification to the programme I was running on the stand. I was
>> displaying a sine-wave of asterix characters scrolling continuously down
>> the screen. 3 lines of code generated the sine-wave (and cosine) numbers
>> and the other 30 or so lines did scaling and arrangements for its
>> display. I was showing the source code in a separate window.
>> 
>> With a bit of role play in the class-room and the aid of a few blocks and
>> sheets of acrylic and some dry marker pens (shame we can't use chalk
>> anymore) Forth would be a very good language to teach our primary school
>> children. It would probably not take many sessions of this before you
>> could let them loose on a Forth on a computer and have them programming
>> for real. There are some tutorial books that can help the teachers at
>> this level too.
> 
> sounds wishful

Not that wishful Gav. I have run some of the ideas by some ex-teachers and 
have some contacts in the Teacher Training arena. The 5 year-old was 
probably easier to deal with. I know the real challenge is teaching the 
teachers on how to approach the material.

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Program or be Programmed ! visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2014-12-01 18:55 -0800
  Re: Program or be Programmed ! Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2014-12-02 11:36 +0000
    Re: Program or be Programmed ! the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2014-12-13 12:47 -0800
      Re: Program or be Programmed ! Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2014-12-13 20:54 +0000
      Re: Program or be Programmed ! visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2014-12-17 16:51 -0800
    Re: Program or be Programmed ! "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-19 08:20 +0000
      Re: Program or be Programmed ! Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2014-12-19 09:29 +0000
      Re: Program or be Programmed ! "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-03-27 07:57 +0000
    Re: Program or be Programmed ! "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-25 21:08 +0000

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