Teaching little kids to program: via board games
Joshua Judson Rosen
rozzin at geekspace.com
Wed Sep 25 19:35:41 EDT 2013
Curt Howland <Howland at priss.com> writes:
>
> 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.
Well, that's the `sneaky' part, isn't it? ;)
> Teaching problem solving, iteration, algorithms, and such, does not
> require a computer.
Some favourite quotes:
"Computer Science is no more about computers
than astronomy is about telescopes."
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Computer_science#Disputed>
"Computer Science is embarassed by the computer."
<http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html>
"Programming is just another name for the lost art of thinking."
<http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/programming.html>
> 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.
Excepting, perhaps (I'm told), COBOL.
<http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html>
--
"'tis an ill wind that blows no minds."
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