-----Original Message----- From: edu-sig-bounces@python.org [mailto:edu-sig-bounces@python.org] On Behalf Of Jonah Bossewitch Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 1:45 AM To: edu-sig@python.org Subject: [Edu-sig] Rapunsel, Rapunsel
Does this group know about this project?
Or this project? http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/llk/scratch/
I saw Mary talk today and her work is quite impressive. It's still being researched...
It is difficult - *for me* - to understand what "researched" means in the context a project whose goals are stated in the form of a Manifesto. Give me an old fashioned unfunded manifesto, like Breton's http://www.tcf.ua.edu/courses/Jbutler/T340/SurManifesto/ManifestoOfSurrealis m.htm
wouldn't it be wonderful if they moved away from java and towards a more youthful, dynamic, vibrant, language...
When one abstracts "programming" as far from the particulars of any real programming language as - I suspect - a project like Rapunsel does - then implementation language does not seem to have much significance. Isn't this one of Pausch's lessons from Alice? Much of the outcome of the research - it seems to me - depends on issues of semantics. What is programming - for example. Which - BTW - is *not* a discussion I am hoping to have here. Personally, I don't think Python *is* in the Alice, Scratch, Rapunsel space or *belongs* in that space or is competitive in that space. Which happens to be more than fine with me. Art