<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Wes Turner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wes.turner@gmail.com" target="_blank">wes.turner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> 4. Create a visualization<div><br></div><div>The Khan Academy Computer Programming "Intro to JS" videos and exercises are done with ProcessingJS for visualizations:</div><div><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming" target="_blank">https://www.khanacademy.org/co<wbr>mputing/computer-programming</a></div><div class="gmail-m_-8377943804980898993gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-m_-8377943804980898993gmail-h5"><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">​Glad to see ProcessingJS mentioned.  Arduino programming inherits from Processing model also.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">One of the more effective subcultures I'm aware of, vis-a-vis Learning to Code, is spearheaded by Dan Shiffman of Coding Train fame, a ProcessingJS guru:</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><a href="http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2018/03/youtube-teachers.html" target="_blank">http://worldgame.blogspot.com/<wbr>2018/03/youtube-teachers.html</a>  (links to Dan's Youtube channel)<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Glad to see Unplugged activities getting plugged (advertised).  New Zealand an early player.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.csunplugged.org/en/">https://www.csunplugged.org/en/</a><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Also happy to see Vilnius in the edu-sig news feed, having attended a EuroPython there.  I became a Vilnius fan.<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><a href="http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2007/07/vilnius.html">http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2007/07/vilnius.html</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Kirby</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">​</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail-m_-8377943804980898993gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-m_-8377943804980898993gmail-h5"><div></div><div><br><br>On Sunday, June 24, 2018, Wes Turner <<a href="mailto:wes.turner@gmail.com" target="_blank">wes.turner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br><br>On Sunday, June 24, 2018,  <<a href="mailto:mw@creative-informatics.de" target="_blank">mw@creative-informatics.de</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="DE"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear Python educators,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">teaching Python includes explaining technical facets of the programming language and initiating and scaffolding hands-on programming exercises.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">However, especially  if the object of the course is to develop “computational thinking” and to get a deeper understanding what computer science is, the curriculum might contain “unplugged” activities without a computer.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">What do you think about unplugged activities challenging creativity? I would like to advertise a questionnaire, which is part of an international study on this type of activities in computer science education. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/seYGUlsKHxyiqqnX2" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">https://goo.gl/forms/seYGUlsKH<wbr>xyiqqnX2</span></a> <span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The results will be presented in August 2018 at Constructionism in Vilnius (Lithuania) and will be available to everyone <a href="http://www.constructionism2018.fsf.vu.lt/" target="_blank">http://www.constructionism2018<wbr>.fsf.vu.lt/</a> .<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thank you and best wishes<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p></div></div></blockquote><br></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div>