Good suggestions!
There are also some very good project write ups done by an 8th grade class in Toronto (pointer on the Squeakland site).
Cheers,
Alan
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At 05:51 AM 3/23/2005, Erik Nauman wrote:
I think the ideal would be something like your list below but a little more fleshed out for the classroom teacher audience. With more ideas accompanied with the specific "how tos" it would be less time-consuming for teachers, even those with plenty of tech (but minimal programming) experience like myself, to go beyond the few tutorials offered on squeakland. With more scaffolding more teachers would be able to push their students beyond simple variations of the basics like your son experienced at school. Another issue for me is that I tend to shy away from using tutorials with my students (5-7th grade) because I want them to be able to use their object-oriented experience to process content they are learning in other disciplines. So I have to come up with the content and "how to" myself. If you could post your own projects and solutions to squeakland I think it would be invaluable, even the complex projects you're working on as I think the squeak community is enormously varied in programming experience.
My question is can the current procedure on squeakland for submitting and posting projects on the kids play section of the site include accompanying tutorials? I think this would help lower the grade of the squeak learning curve for all users. Thanks, Erik Nauman Middle School Technology Coordinator The Hewitt School 212-994-2610
-----Original Message----- From: squeakland-bounces@squeakland.org [mailto:squeakland-bounces@squeakland.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Lawrence Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 7:46 PM To: squeakland@squeakland.org Subject: [Squeakland] EToys Experience Report
Something like this
Drive a Car around a track HINT : follow the excellent tutorial
Salmon navigation HINT : draw the river as a gradient HINT : Watch the saturationUnder as you move your salmon around the
river HINT : store the previous saturation in a variable
- Bouncing Basketballs HINT : add the acceleration to the forwardBy every tick
.....
- Star-eating Snake
HINT : Use the 'copy' message to gorw an extra body segment
...
- Prisoner's Dilemma
HINT : Store the history in a linked list
.....
- Kepler's Law
HINT : Think of a player as a vector
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