Subject: Re: Teaching lisp to young kids
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 28 Oct 2000 10:54:45 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <8teb9l$3n5p0$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Fernando Rodr�guez  <spamers@must.die> wrote:
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| <Marc.Battyani@fractalconcept.com> wrote:
| >I will give a short introduction to programming in the local school
| >to 9-10 year old kids. I do this in logo with younger (7-8 y) kids
| >but would like to try lisp withthe older ones.
| >Has anybody tried this ?
| 
| 	This people have been doing it for years:
| http://www.schemers.com/tsg.html
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As have the Rice folks, with their "TeachScheme! Project" high school
computer curriculum:

	<URL:http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/Teaching/>

They claim over 65 high schools use their stuff (and ~170 universities).

-Rob

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