[Fwd: Re: [seul-edu] programming courses for 6 th grades]

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:

> >From owner-seul-project@belegost.mit.edu  Tue Jun 12 09:38:43 2001
>
> From: "Kyle Hutson" <smyle@rockcreek.k12.ks.us>
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] programming courses for 6 th grades
>
> >we are planning to give programming courses to the 6th grades and start
> >by BASIC or Pascal. does anybody have an experience to share with us?
> >do you have any lesson plans about programming courses to the young
> >pupils?
>
> If you
> a) Have the budget (about $150/set)
> b) Have some Win9x computers (yes, I know - apologies in advance for
> suggesting anything involving the evil empire)
>
> try LEGO Mindstorms.  http://www.legomindstorms.com/
>
> Nice visual flowchart-like programming language, and the results are
> very tangible (they get to see the robot do what they told it to do).
>
> I haven't even tried running it under linux, but I understand it is
> possible, though not as 'visual'.
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Lego/
>
> --
> Kyle Hutson /  Director of Technology  / Rock Creek Schools:  USD323
> smyle@rockcreek.k12.ks.us                               785-494-8591
> Actually I am a laboratory mouse posing as an engineer as part of an
>                elaborate plot to take over the world

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