[Edu-sig] CP4E

[Arthur]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: edu-sig-bounces at python.org [mailto:edu-sig-bounces at python.org] On
> Behalf Of Kirby Urner
> 
> So I'm thinking more about CP4E and how that might look in the early
> grades.
> What if you're not in math class, not in a CS or preCS class of any kind.
> Still, you might get mileage out of Python.
> 
> Scenario:  what a lot of kids do in early grades is memorize some states
> and
> capitals. 

They do.  I did.  

Like geometric objects in introducing OOP, a convention is being followed.
The point not being the importance of knowing, by heart, the capitals of
states.  The point being the importance of exercising the memorization
facility.

What I see in your suggestion is, once again, the power of technology in the
classroom to fix what isn't broken, or in fact break what's fixed - not the
opposite. 

Art