On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 09:52 +1000, Jason White wrote:
Donna Benjamin <donna@cc.com.au> wrote:
Hang on - Where's computer science? Oh that's right it doesn't exist in the brave new world of the new Australian Curriculum. It's a general capability (ICT) or a "Technology" along with design, woodworking, cooking and agriculture - in a strand called "Digital Technologies"
It was more than this when I was in secondary school. Then, at least, everybody did a little programming (in BASIC or Logo). Some of us learned Pascal too. I don't know what the computing subjects in years 11-12 would have entailed, as I didn't choose them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProgramByDesign Any thoughts on ProgramByDesign, the new name for the TeachScheme! project out of Rice Uni. that has been working in this area since 1995? Beyond putting Racket (the new name for DrScheme) on SFD discs, I haven't done anything with it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_%28programming_language%29 (Win, Mac OS/X, Linux) I don't think that http://drpython.sourceforge.net/ DrPython had sufficient development done to get to Racket's level, but am guessing.