On Nov 6, 2013, at 12:37 PM, roberto.minelli@usi.ch wrote:

Hi,

I would like to hear an opinion from you. I need to organize a 3-day project with high-school students. In short they will come to our University and I am the responsible to guide them to do “something” to introduce them to programming.

The assumption is that they have zero background about programming. In this mailing list I’ve read a couple of previous discussions about how to start to use Pharo and ST for educational purposes, but I’d love to collect additional opinions.

Visual programming is one of the thing that came to my mind. I though about Phratch. Michele suggested me to look also at Etoys (squeakland.org) and I will start to look at thesee two tools in the next days.

phratch is better from that point of view. because looking cooler. Now an inspector on a popSocket and fetching mail lively is always fun. Stef

Any opinion, proposal, tool, article, suggestion, hint on the topic is really welcome.

Thanks in advance, Roberto

roberto.minelli@usi.ch wrote:

Hi,

I would like to hear an opinion from you. I need to organize a 3-day project with high-school students. In short they will come to our University and I am the responsible to guide them to do “something” to introduce them to programming.

The assumption is that they have zero background about programming. In this mailing list I’ve read a couple of previous discussions about how to start to use Pharo and ST for educational purposes, but I’d love to collect additional opinions.

Visual programming is one of the thing that came to my mind. I though about Phratch. Michele suggested me to look also at Etoys (squeakland.org) and I will start to look at thesee two tools in the next days.

Any opinion, proposal, tool, article, suggestion, hint on the topic is really welcome.

Thanks in advance, Roberto

Three days is not long if they are starting from zero. See if you can prime them by getting them to first play the game Kodable on the iPad, before they get there. Then you'll have more impact. I have my young kids playing it and its worth trying it out yourself. cheers -ben

Here are some systems that come to mind, though not necessarily related to Pharo: Gidget Scratch Greenfoot Looking Glass Cheers, Jeff On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:37 PM, roberto.minelli@usi.ch < roberto.minelli@usi.ch> wrote:

Hi,

I would like to hear an opinion from you. I need to organize a 3-day project with high-school students. In short they will come to our University and I am the responsible to guide them to do “something” to introduce them to programming.

The assumption is that they have zero background about programming. In this mailing list I’ve read a couple of previous discussions about how to start to use Pharo and ST for educational purposes, but I’d love to collect additional opinions.

Visual programming is one of the thing that came to my mind. I though about Phratch. Michele suggested me to look also at Etoys (squeakland.org) and I will start to look at thesee two tools in the next days.

Any opinion, proposal, tool, article, suggestion, hint on the topic is really welcome.

Thanks in advance, Roberto

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