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Article #150Re: Getting a 10 year old started in programming
From: M Darrin Chaney
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:42
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:42
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In article <1992Aug12.175911.19270@softwords.bc.ca> rslade@cue.bc.ca (Rob Slade) writes: >Sometime in the third week, in the space of two hours, my "stupid little >airhead" surged ahead of the entire class. By the fourth week, she was >correcting and improving the procedures of the rest of the class. By the >end of eight weeks she had thoroughly mastered procedures and modular >programming, was dealing with recursion and list processing. She had >even discovered, on her own, the "Total Turtle Trip Theorem", which I >had frankly considered to be impossible. (I was very careful about *not* >giving her any info on it. She didn't know anything about "degrees", but >she did discover that a closed figure required a total of 360 in "turns". >Blew me away, the day she did a perfect pentagon ... on her very first >attempt.) Okay, I'll bite. What's the "Total Turtle Trip Theorem?" Darrin -- mdchaney@iubacs mdchaney@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu mdchaney@rose.ucs.indiana.edu "It's a marvel of vegetable containment..."
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.logo,misc.kids Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!walter!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!fractal!mdchaney From: mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney) Subject: Re: Getting a 10 year old started in programming Message-ID: <BsxIAE.ML1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: fractal.ucs.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington References: <BsKGLv.JEC@unx.sas.com> <BRENT.92Aug7095622@amber.cs.unh.edu> <1992Aug12.175911.19270@softwords.bc.ca> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:42:14 GMT Lines: 21