On Oct 31, 2006, at 8:14 PM, Brad Fuller wrote:
try the book Powerful Ideas in the Classroom
http://www.amazon.com/Powerful-Ideas-Classroom-B-J-Allen/dp/ 0974313106/sr=8-1/qid=1162350766/ ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-7335726-6184028?ie=UTF8&s=books
Thanks.
I saw that the book is available, and I'll probably get it.
The description on Amazon makes it sound as though this book is a collection of example projects. While that is certainly valuable, I'd like to be able to go fairly free-form exploration with the kids, and just bring up new capabilities as the kids thought of wanting them (at least somewhat; this is an after-school "fun" group). This means I'd like to arrive at a fairly good idea of what all the capabilities are, or how to find them, myself. So I'm looking for more documentation than projects: here are all the things an etoy can do, concisely and fairly completely described. Also, some stuff for a real programmer would be nice: how to do loops, tuples, dictionaries...
Is there any kind of documentation like that?