[Edu-sig] Age groups

[Dirk-Ulrich Heise]

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Von: Gerrit Holl <gerrit.holl@pobox.com>
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>>   3) Elementary Education (8-10 year old)
>
>You can start here. The concept of variables, lists and functions can
>be explained. Dictionairies too, I think. Classes will probably be only
>for the very smart ones.

Don't you think classes are as easy as variables?
Start right with objects, before they even know there were
non-OO-approaches in the past. (now, i read several
posting from functional programming guys stating Haskell
etc.would provide all kinds of OO, so i think they won't
backstab me, although i have no notion of what OO means
in a functional programming context. I also read that
Python is a version of Scheme with a funny syntax. So i think
they don't really hate OO.)

Dirk