Using algebra as a basis for teaching programming is great. I've used it at times as a lead-in: you basically use the same terminology (functions), and kids really like being able to replace the actual calculations with a function that can be 'worked out' by the computer. You could also approach it from a variety of different directions. GUI programming is possible, but with the class I am working with now I wish I'd had more chance to spend teaching other stuff before having to move to a GUI toolkit. Matt. On 23/07/07, Bryan <belred@gmail.com> wrote:
hi,
i have the opportunity to teach python at the local public school and my company will pay for my time off of work to volunteer. i talked to the school and i can set the curriculum and the age of the students how i want. the grades available to me are K-12. my question to this email list is does anyone have a curriculum that i could borrow from. i need to put together a syllabus and plan for 18 1 hour sessions. i'm thinking about setting minimum requirement to those that have taken at least 1 quarter of algebra. if you think that's not the right thing to do please let me know.
thanks,
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