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Topic: teaching processing: a recommended age range? (Read 2652 times) |
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ed
 
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teaching processing: a recommended age range?
« on: Oct 12th, 2003, 1:58pm » |
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I know processing is being used very sucessfully in many graduate/post graduate courses; and hoorah for that. I was wondering if anyone had experience of or opinions about teaching processing to considerably younger students, possibly as young as 11-15 years old. Maybe there are some folks around that age using processing already who have ideas and opinions?
The specific context that's on my mind is weekend workshops I've some involvment with indending to identify "exceptional creativity" in young people. I wonder if processing could play some part or whether the learning curve would be simply too demanding for creativity to get a foothold in less than a day or so?
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pitaru
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Re: teaching processing: a recommended age range?
« Reply #1 on: Oct 12th, 2003, 4:54pm » |
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Hey Ed,
I think that processing can be taught to very young minds, provided that:
a) You filter the syntax, and provide a colorful page (w/16-size font) of no more than 8 commands.
b) The assignments are somewhat familiar to the kids from their drawing or music classes in school.
Very interesting subject, lets think about it some.
-amit
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Re: teaching processing: a recommended age range?
« Reply #2 on: Oct 12th, 2003, 7:58pm » |
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I started learning Processing when I was 15, and I have tried to teach some of my fellow students (unsuccesful though). I think a better place to start is DBN, because there you can learn the fundamentals of programming, without all the fancy additional things which kind of distract you from the original subject. The next step can be Processing or basically any other programming language.
Koenie
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Re: teaching processing: a recommended age range?
« Reply #3 on: Oct 15th, 2003, 6:27am » |
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I'm excited to see alternative examples and tutorials made for this audience. I think it could even be a separate site (not sure about this). It's not something I'm at all qualified to tackle, but maybe some former teachers such as Jared Schiffman, Simon Greenwold, etc. would like to contribute. But on the other hand, we seem to have a number of people 11-15 poking around the current site and making great work.
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madmerv
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Re: teaching processing: a recommended age range?
« Reply #4 on: Mar 24th, 2004, 4:02am » |
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Recently I approached some K-12 educators, who said they probably wouldn't offer it to kids under 9th grade.
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Mythmon
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Re: teaching processing: a recommended age range?
« Reply #5 on: Jun 4th, 2004, 5:53am » |
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atm i just finished 8th grade and im 13, i have been programming for quite a while and have tried everything from as to php to c++, i have yet to try to teach one of my peers but im going to try soon.
there is one thing that i would eally like to say though, dont treat any kids trying to learn like babies, because they will not (not wont be able to, but will not) learn anything like that
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gll
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Re: teaching processing: a recommended age range?
« Reply #6 on: Aug 12th, 2004, 2:26am » |
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I started to code when I was 7, it was in 1984. At that time, it was simple script to launch my favorites games on an Aplle][e (LodeRunner most of the time) and my father was teaching me Prolog. I left prommaming when the games consoles went in the neighborhood.
I don't know if someone had played golf with LOGO? You had to put a printed plastic acetate over your screen that was a representation of a golf yard and the game was to drive the turtle over the hole.
20 years later, I had the same feeling when I saw p5. The strongest motivation that I had to learn coding was that it was the only way at that time to play games. When I look to my old programs (with a lot of GOTO, IF and THEN), I guess that it changed the way I'm thinking today.
http://www.vif.com/users/goo/VRAC/APPLE/DoYouPlay03.htm
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