[Edu-sig] Who knows? Maybe someone here is interested in this...

[fotisg@science.uva.nl]

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Subject: presentation of the work of Fotis Georgatos; the AMSTEL institute
From: gef@ceid.upatras.gr
Date: Tue, June 18, 2002 1:23 pm
To: ams@science.uva.nl

Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited to the defence of the Masters thesis entitled:

"How applicable is Python as first computer language for teaching
programming  in a pre-university educational environment, from a
teacher's point of view?"

Next Tuesday, June 25, from 14.00 till 15.30 Fotis Georgatos
will present his work at the Studio Classroom, AMSTEL Institute.

Fotis Georgatos is following the International Masters program
"Mathematics and Science Education" organized by the AMSTEL Institute. In
his case the Masters thesis is aimed at teaching a computer language, in
particular Python, and what are the teachers' opinion over that.

The presentation includes a discussion on
* research subject setting
* background work
* chosen methodology
* results and
* conclusions
Hopefully the critique over the findings of this research will be
followed by  a discussion on what the future concerns in teaching
programming could be like.

Please, do forward this announcement within your departments to possibly
interested colleagues that should be aware of it.

You may find the Research Report on the project's website:
http://amstel.science.uva.nl/~fotisg/python/

Kind regards,

  Fotis Georgatos

  Dr. Ton Ellermeijer

  AMSTEL institute, Faculty of Science
  Universiteit van Amsterdam
  Kruislaan 404
  NL - 1098 SM Amsterdam
  The Netherlands
  tel ++ 31 20 5257963
  fax ++ 31 20 5255866