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

[Douglas Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:

> From: William Kendrick <nbs@bolt.sonic.net>
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] programming courses for 6 th grades
> 
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:17:33PM -0700, Jay Sun wrote:
> >  
> > logo and graphics related experiments are not programming. In business world, those graphics layout and logo design people are called creative group, and that is a complete seperate group than programming team.  So playing on computer to do logo
> stuff may be very effective to get kids interested in computers, but that is not programming.
> 
> Actually, the whole point of teaching Logo in my school was to help
> teach geometry.  :^/
> 
> 
> -bill!
> 
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