[Edu-sig] About myself

[Roman Suzi]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Jason Cunliffe wrote:

hi!

> Hi Roman
> 
> Thanks for the intro..
> 
> I hope you stick around. You seem to be grappling with familiar problems.
> 
> But I question anyone who implies xyz god/tool/method is the #1.
> Everything and everybody has a context, needs, a past, a  present and
> future.

Of course. 
 
> CASE STUDY: 12-year old want to learn 'programming'

At this age kids are usually very "visually-inclined". 
They prefer nice, colorful pictures and interfaces to
UNIX-like ones...

> All that Unix culture oozing through the cracks, mysterious intros that
> mention environment variables withuot explaing what the fuck they are and
> how to set them, dubious Mac support [getting better again with MacOSX coudl
> be much more Python friendly] no simple one-click executables without diving
> through lots in clever READMEs. This kids wants to progam something and end
> up with soemthnig which will work. A single binary object he can put on his
> desktop, a disk or email to friend, show his doubting teachers. Python does
> not encourage this, though it is becoming more and more possible.
> 
> Well I believe Kirby's curriculum strategy is an essential step.
> http://www.inetarena.com/~pdx4d/ocn/

I'll look at it.

> Even if everyone got hit by a very special RCrumb meatball today or next
> Tuesday, and said "OK! Wow - Let's start using nothing but Python for all
> our teaching from now on"
> Then they would have job #1 - figuring out how what and when and lack of
> curriculum.
> 
> Countries who have embraced Linux as national OS policy and have ambitious
> plans active for computer education and network infsractucture are likely to
> be the move Python in the classrom from enlightened experiment to reality.
> South Korea for example.
> 
> > (I am also a participant of Seul/EDU (Simple End User Linux,
> > educational aspect. Python Edu-SIG /\ Seul-EDU != [].
> >
> > And a moderator of relcom.education newsgroup.
> 
> Don't follow that. Thanks I'll look

[the rest will be answered separately]

Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
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