I wish my Computer Studies teacher had shown us that. That *would* have grabbed my interest.
What was wrong with the class I did, now that I think about it, was not the turtle graphics but the complete lack of context. The class was called Computer Studies, but instead of getting an overview of how computers worked or even how programming languages worked, we were sat down at the school Acorns on the first day and told to start typing in turtle graphics instructions. No one told me it was like a simplified version of programming, or what it had to do with anything else computers did. I only figured out the point of it ten years later when I started doing programming at university!
Yikes, megacomment to my own housemate. *waves across hall* :)
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Date: 2007-05-18 07:23 pm (UTC)What was wrong with the class I did, now that I think about it, was not the turtle graphics but the complete lack of context. The class was called Computer Studies, but instead of getting an overview of how computers worked or even how programming languages worked, we were sat down at the school Acorns on the first day and told to start typing in turtle graphics instructions. No one told me it was like a simplified version of programming, or what it had to do with anything else computers did. I only figured out the point of it ten years later when I started doing programming at university!
Yikes, megacomment to my own housemate. *waves across hall* :)