[sugar] Multilingual programming

Andrew Clunis orospakr at linux.ca
Tue Mar 13 17:43:48 EDT 2007


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Ian Bicking wrote:
> There's two reasons for children to be programming too -- one is just to
> learn stuff via programming, and another to make useful programs.  When
> you start making useful programs it becomes more important to integrate
> yourself with the larger infrastructure on the laptop, perhaps with a
> larger community of people that don't share your language, etc.  But if
> you are just learning via programming, none of that is so important.  I
> don't think the Develop activity is really trying to be
> learning-via-programming, so maybe it's okay that it not go to heroic
> efforts to be neutral.  Substantial efforts, sure, but there's just a
> lot of constraints, many of which aren't even technical.
> 

Yeah, I'm aiming for that.  For now anyway, learning-via-programming is
eToys' domain.

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Regards,
Andrew Clunis

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