<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 14/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Sijpkes</b> <<a href="mailto:paul.sijpkes@aanet.com.au">paul.sijpkes@aanet.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Good evening list,<br><br>I am in the process of developing a curriculum for a Year 10 elective in<br>programming. I have done some initial research and found that there is an<br>enormous range of options from the more popular products eg. Gamemaker and
<br>Visual Basic to Python, Ruby, BlueJ, Robocode (very cool!) to just scratch<br>the surface.</blockquote><div><br>Great idea. Use 'Scratch'. Absoutely perfect. <a href="http://scratch.mit.edu/">http://scratch.mit.edu/
</a><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I believe that a good grounding in Java or a C based language is probably<br>
beneficial but I don't want to overwhelm the students with an overly<br>technical approach. </blockquote><div><br>You're right. Scratch could be the fun way to provide an excellent grounding. It is also freely available.
<br><a href="http://waraku.blogspot.com/2007/03/scratch-mobile-phones-and-podmo.html">http://waraku.blogspot.com/2007/03/scratch-mobile-phones-and-podmo.html</a><br><br>Here are some other links relating to Scratch<br><a href="http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=scratch&type=user">
http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=scratch&type=user</a> <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Then again, I don't want them to be purely based in
<br>Microsoft products and GUI development.<br><br>Could anyone else share their ideas and experiences in what works and what<br>doesn't? Your wisdom and feedback is much appreciated!<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Paul Sijpkes
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