<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername"></b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rayb@apc.edu.ph">rayb@apc.edu.ph</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:59 AM<br>
Subject: [OLPC-Philippines] CACM article: Scratch: Programming for All<br>To: <a href="mailto:olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org">olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Cc: APC-OLPC <<a href="mailto:apc-olpc@apc.edu.ph">apc-olpc@apc.edu.ph</a>><br>
<br><br>Hi, all,<br>
<br>
The cover story of the November issue of Communications of the ACM is about the Scratch visual programming environment: <a href="http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/11/48421-scratch-programming-for-all/fulltext" target="_blank">http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/11/48421-scratch-programming-for-all/fulltext</a><br>
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Scratch is one of the activities installed on the XO. A related package is Etoys --mentioned in the article but not discussed further. About all I know of these packages is that both are implemented in Squeak Smalltalk and both enable multimedia authoring. So I ask those in the know: which would be better for introducing programming to middle school or high school kids?<br>
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Best,<br>
<br>
Ray<br>
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