[Squeak-fr] KPL Kids programmers language

Jeu 13 Oct 23:04:06 CEST 2005

Salut,

A la conf ESUG 2005, il y a eu un suédois qui a présenté un ComiKit.  
C'est très simple et plus intuitif/naturel que Etoy.
Il utilise la métaphore de la Bande Dessinée. C'est un proto de  
recherche qui issu d'expérimentations avec les enfants...

http://www.esug.org/conferences/thirteenthinternationalconference2005/ 
comikit/
http://www.ida.liu.se/~mikki/comics/
http://www.comikit.se/esug/

Noury
Le 12 oct. 05, à 14:40, Dreyfuss Pierre-André (EDU) a écrit :

>  Bonjour,
> il y a beaucoup plus près des E-Toy
> et en plus une programmation entièrement visuelle qui permet aux  
> enfants qui ne savent pas encore lire de programmer: toonTalk.
>
> http://www.toontalk.com/English/free.htm
>
> Mais plus que pour des très jeunes enfants, il permet aux élèves  qui  
> ont des difficultés avec le texte et la lecture d'exprimer leur  
> intelligence non verbale.
>
> J'ai plusieurs fois eu la surprise de constater au premier conseil de  
> classe que mes meilleurs élèves avec toonTalk étaient en gravement  
> échec dans les autres disciplines.
>
> Mieux lorsque j'ai découvert squeak, je suis passé de tooTalk à  
> Squeak, les élèves ont facilement retrouvés les correspondances pour  
> utiliser Squeak. Par exemple: Les livres qui sortent des objets de  
> toontalk et contiennent les commandes à adresser aux objets  
> correspondent aux visualisateurs tirés de l'oeil bleu.
>
> L'année suivante, certains de ces élèves très faibles se sont trouvés  
> les meilleurs, meilleurs que d'autres qui étaient bon par ailleurs.
>
>
> Attention pour nous programmer avec ToonTalk est difficile car ce  
> n'est pas notre forme de pensée qui utilise le texte  comme véhicule   
> alors que la pensée procédurale s'appuie sur l'action mais si l'on  
> veut donner leur chance à tous les élèves, il faut tenir compte de ces  
> différences.
>
>
> Faire quelque chose du genre en Squeak est l'un de mes projets, mais  
> je ne veut pas faire un clone de toonTalk mais quelque chose qui  
> s'appuie sur les E-toy et les possibilités de squeak.
>
> Amitiés
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De: squeak-fr-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> A: Squeak in french / Squeak en français
> Date: 12.10.05 13:46
> Objet: [Squeak-fr] KPL Kids programmers language
> Importance: Haute
>
> On est encore loin des Etoys ;-)
>
> Début du message réexpédié :
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> 1. The Kid's Programming Language
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> by Martin Heller
>>
>>
>> When I was a 9th-grader interested in programming, my math teacher
>> pointed me at the "computer lab," where the school had one IBM
>> computer. This being 1965, the computer used drum memory, had a
>> hexadecimal instruction set, and had an IBM manual for that
>> instruction set. Period. I didn't get very far with that: our computer
>> club, working together, eventually developed a program for generating
>> the value of pi. It could spit out one digit every 5 or 6 seconds--and
>> that was after optimizing the instruction interleave for the drum
>> rotation speed.
>>
>> Fast forward 40 years. Here it is 2005, and I'm programming on 3 GHz
>> Pentium IV computers with sophisticated integrated development
>> environments like Visual Studio 2005 and Eclipse, in object-oriented
>> languages like C#, Visual Basic .NET and Java. If you think about it,
>> Visual Studio and Eclipse offer just as great a barrier to a young
>> beginning programmer as that ancient IBM box, except that it's the
>> opposite barrier: instead of having to learn to program with no tools
>> at all, the new programmer now has to learn to use incredibly powerful
>> and complex tools in order to program.
>>
>> There's Logo, of course, and StarLogo in particular. But Logo doesn't
>> provide a great transition to object-oriented languages.
>>
>> A new, free alternative is the Kid's Programming Language (KPL), from
>> Morrison Schwartz. Jon Schwartz is a Microsoft alumnus; Walt Morrison
>> is an alumnus of NCR and Costco. KPL is the brainchild of their third
>> core team member, Jonah Stagner, who wrote it to teach his own kids to
>> program. According to the KPL Web site's Teacher's Introduction:
>>
>> "KPL stands for Kid's Programming Language. KPL makes it easy for
>> kids to learn computer programming. KPL makes it fun, too, by making
>> it especially easy to program computer games, with cool graphics and
>> sound. KPL is not just for games, though'Äîit can be used for teaching
>> many different subjects. KPL's emphasis on games is based on the
>> belief that learning is best when learning is fun.
>>
>> "KPL is a freeware educational program developed by Morrison
>> Schwartz, a software development and consulting company. KPL is also a
>> growing community of teachers, students and parents from around the
>> world who are learning and programming using KPL. KPL is still in its
>> early stages, but already offers a number of sample programs as
>> learning material, and we are working on much more."
>>
>> Another Morrison Schwartz Web page summarizes the language:
>>
>> "KPL's language is modeled on the simplicity and readability of
>> BASIC, but it is a structured rather than linear programming language.
>> KPL lets children see eye-catching and immediate results from their
>> programs, while teaching them fundamental concepts like variables,
>> data types, loops, decision structures, methods and functions. KPL's
>> data types include integers, decimals, strings, booleans, arrays, and
>> user-defined structures."
>>
>> To my eye, the KPL language looks like a stripped-down version of the
>> Visual Basic language with some elements of C#. The control structures
>> lean towards Basic (If/Then/Else/End If, For/Next, While/End While,
>> Method/End Method), and there are no semi-colons. The comments, on the
>> other hand, lean towards the C style: //.
>>
>> The language has data Structures, on the order of C structs, but not
>> classes, and that's deliberate. The point is that object-oriented
>> programming is not really appropriate for beginners.
>>
>>
>> ** Read more at http://www.byte.com/documents/byt1128970353339/ **
>>
>> PhL
>>
>>
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