Hi Danny, On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Danny Yoo <d...@hashcollision.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > You might want to look at Bootstrapworld, a curriculum for > middle-school/high-school math using programming and games: > > http://www.bootstrapworld.org/ > > Students who go through the material learn how math can be used > productively toward writing a video game. Along the way, they learn > the idea of function, of considering inputs and outputs, and how to > test what they've designed. > Sounds ace. I had a look. It seems optimised for Racket, which is also cool.... so I installed Racket on my son's computer and let him have a play. He immediately got into it, and got the hang of functions and expressions etc. S. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor