Comments on: Visual Programming Environments For Kids http://lostintentions.com/2009/06/04/visual-programming-for-kids/ In search of a Richer development experience Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:54:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: links for 2009-06-08 « My Weblog http://lostintentions.com/2009/06/04/visual-programming-for-kids/#comment-97 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:05:56 +0000 http://lostintentions.com/?p=189#comment-97 [...] Visual Programming Environments For Kids « Lost Intentions (tags: kids lego) [...]

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]]> By: The Third Bit » Blog Archive » Visual Programming Environments for Kids http://lostintentions.com/2009/06/04/visual-programming-for-kids/#comment-87 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:43:17 +0000 http://lostintentions.com/?p=189#comment-87 [...] look at several visual programming environments for young children from Shone Sadler.  Wish there was more like this on the [...]

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]]> By: ssadler http://lostintentions.com/2009/06/04/visual-programming-for-kids/#comment-81 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:19:04 +0000 http://lostintentions.com/?p=189#comment-81 We toyed with the idea of doing a virtual representation for the Bot-Commander as well, but only had a little over a week for the prototype we put together. I do believe it would be very helpful though both for economical reasons as you pointed out, as a progression (inevitably its still more complexity when you add in the physical bot), and possibly to help kids see the link between the virtual and the physical. With respect to 1-3 I would definitely recommend looking at Scratch if you haven’t already. I heard positive reviews of it thus far including my own experience with my kids (ages 4&6). Another good review I saw recently was by Nat Torkington at http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/05/teaching-kids-programming.html. You can also extend Scratch with a physical component as well for a more reasonable cost, see http://www.picocricket.com/picoboard.html . The Pico board from Playful Invention is easy to use. I also know there is work going on to extend Scratch in different ways. For example, see an Augmented Reality project at Georgia Tech http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/lab/research/authoring-environments-for-augmented-reality/ar-scratch/ or for more details at
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~iulian/portfolio_resources/ARScratch_CHI09_OUT.pdf . Finally you could also consider http://www.alice.org/ , but I haven’t played with that environment much as of yet.

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]]> By: Jamie Bullock http://lostintentions.com/2009/06/04/visual-programming-for-kids/#comment-78 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:24:31 +0000 http://lostintentions.com/?p=189#comment-78 Sounds like a fantastic project. Your write-up is fascinating and teaches some valuable lessons about software development in general. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: phil koltko http://lostintentions.com/2009/06/04/visual-programming-for-kids/#comment-77 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:08:22 +0000 http://lostintentions.com/?p=189#comment-77 Nice writeup!

I’m in the process of getting our local school district to pay attention to kids and robotics and was wondering anyone has any suggestions for a hardware/software pairing that:

– Has both a real-world (physical ‘bot) and virtual (simulated ‘bot) component. Having this would allow us to get more kids involved without a massive hardware expense.

– Is appropriate for 12-14 year olds (or advanced 10-12 year olds)

– Is as inexpensive as possible (especially on the software side, where the ideal case would be to have the package available on every PC in the school)

– Ideally, has a programming/simulation component that can run on Windows Mobile (since each student is already provided with a handheld computer)

Thanks!
phil

]]> By: Adam Flater http://lostintentions.com/2009/06/04/visual-programming-for-kids/#comment-76 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:14:53 +0000 http://lostintentions.com/?p=189#comment-76 Very cool stuff. Glad you were able to leverage Merapi to integrate AIR with the Legos hardware.

(Thanks for the kudos as well.)

cheers
-adam

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