Re: Teaching programming

Craig Nansen (nansen@warp6.cs.misu.NoDak.edu)
Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:14:29 EDT

>How about using HTML as a programming language, well for the basics.
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>I had second graders experimenting with the <hr>, <center>, and heading
><h1>-<h6> attributes last year. Tables and forms this coming year.
>Is that true programming? I do not know. However, it is using abstract
>symbols and words to get a computer to do something cool. <;

Yes, it is programming, and in a useful way. The days of teaching FORTRAN
and BASIC are past. Even Pascal is marginal other than in the high school.
We are only teaching html, Logo and HyperStudio as "programming" languages
and will probably start doing some Java.

Craig Nansen If learning is an act of exploration,
Technolology Coordinator then technology equips the explorer
Minot Public Schools for the journey of a lifetime.....
Minot, ND 58701
nansen@warp6.cs.misu.NoDak.edu Technology: opening minds with a
minot.com/~nansen/techcoord.html new set of keys