Teaching little kids to program: via board games

Curt Howland Howland at Priss.com
Wed Sep 25 13:10:54 EDT 2013


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:59 AM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:
> Awesome. Not so much "sneaky" as separating computers from computer
> science.

Teaching problem solving, iteration, algorithms, and such, does not
require a computer.

I keep being told that "real programmers" don't focus on the language,
but spend the real time correcting the steps and data structures, and
then implement it in any language handy.

Curt-


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