[Edu-sig] curriculum

[Matthew Schinckel]

Using algebra as a basis for teaching programming is great.  I've used
it at times as a lead-in: you basically use the same terminology
(functions), and kids really like being able to replace the actual
calculations with a function that can be 'worked out' by the computer.

You could also approach it from a variety of different directions.
GUI programming is possible, but with the class I am working with now
I wish I'd had more chance to spend teaching other stuff before having
to move to a GUI toolkit.

Matt.

On 23/07/07, Bryan <belred at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i have the opportunity to teach python at the local public school and
> my company will pay for my time off of work to volunteer.  i talked to
> the school and i can set the curriculum and the age of the students
> how i want. the grades available to me are K-12.   my question to this
> email list is does anyone have a curriculum that i could borrow from.
> i need to put together a syllabus and plan for 18 1 hour sessions.
> i'm thinking about setting minimum requirement to those that have
> taken at least 1 quarter of algebra.  if you think that's not the
> right thing to do please let me know.
>
> thanks,
>
> bryan
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Matthew Schinckel <matt at schinckel.net>

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