[Edu-sig] slashdot: Teaching Primary School Students Programming?

[ajsiegel at optonline.net]

> 
> Today, I might consider doing that on my laptop (which does 
> *not* mean
> I can't use the Navona Puppets, maybe to help storyboard the
> computerized version).
> 
> You think kids don't think this way?

Cynical Arthur would welcome the ability to exercise his imagination in the creation of 
animated cartoons that expressed his imagination, by way of computer technology.  

Except that his imagination is his own (everybodys' is) , and he would 
expect to need to wait until an appropriate age and undergo some serious study
before such an ability were accessible to him.

The kind of study, in fact, that I suspect college students at CMU expect to have
to undertake to be able to utilize Panda3d - a serious tool for doing this kind of thing.

Young cynical Arthur had a good sense of when he was been humored and indulged,
and never really liked it much.. A lot of my take and talk is trying to be 
sensitive to young Arthur's needs - since I have no reason to believe that they 
were extraordinary, nor was he.

Arthur


Art 
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