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Two very different press clippings - one a serious opinion, the other an amusing news story, caught my eye this week. The first was news that Barbie, that ever-popular, multi-talented doll from Mattel, is now a computer engineer. As reported in Computerworld , "For the first time, the company took...
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Here is a link to an article about an educational project in Léon and Ponferrada, Spain, where young students in ~ 20 schools learned programming with Phrogram. The article is in Spanish; below is an attempt at an English translation - no doubt, imperfect! (I added a few clarifications in brackets...
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This slide deck was created by Annatala Wolf, a third-year CSE PhD-track graduate student, for her Autumn 2009 class at Ohio State University, where she teaches an "Intro to Programming" course with Phrogram. Here is the URL for other slide decks created by Ms. Wolf for this course - - http...
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Tutorials
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davidw
on Sun, Jan 31 2010
Filed under: education, teaching materials
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We're getting some nice results from our new website, with traffic increases and more people spending more time on the site. We're also seeing a lot of people joining our web community. If you are one of our newer members, please don't just join - - go ahead and post a message or reply to...
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The process usually starts with a motivated teacher who we try to persuade, and who then often has to persuade colleagues or administrators. Sometimes the issues are a matter of budget, sometimes mindset- e.g., Phrogram does not come from a recognized "academic" source, like Alice (CMU) or...
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We submitted this paper for publication at the SIGCSE '09 conference, held in March 2009 in Nashville, TN. Although it was not accepted for publication, it is still a good summary of the thinking behind Phrogram's pedagogical approach.
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Articles
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davidw
on Wed, Apr 29 2009
Filed under: education
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Hi ye 'all, Just wondering about this, Is there a resource section where I can add more icons & sounds & other fun stuff to make programming more fun, Just curious though.
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Hello! I'm Chris and I looked at Phrogram as an easy way to introduce coding for educational purposes. I'm a physicist and mathematician and earn a crust providing mathematical and physical modelling services. Over the last 5 years I've started doing more outreach type activities to promote...
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The program is attached here in a txt file. I fixed the problem, Jon. the text file that loads the values must have no more than 5 lines or the program may not be able to find the medium you want. I used the code in the real vectors example, provided by Jamey I just renamed some of the declarations and...
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Chemistry prep by Jamey
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Raph Koster’s blog entry with that title got me onto this cool find:
Check out Hippasus, an MMO where magic is done via math (shades of DeCamp & Pratt’s Compleat Enchanter). The goal is explicitly to teach math, apparently; you earn power Read More...
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Games
on Wed, Mar 28 2007
Filed under: MMO, education technology, Education, indie games
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The article in the Korea Herald:
More parents, women play computer games
The data comes from the International Ratings Conference held last month in Sydney. I’d like to see more data from there, but there is some good info about Korea and Australia Read More...
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Games
on Mon, Mar 5 2007
Filed under: Game Industry, Video Games, Education
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Not quite sure how this appeared in Delaware Online, but here’s the link to the Perspective article by Bill Gates:
U.S. needs talent to be competitive
His strategy is in two parts:
First, we must demand strong schools so that young Americans enter Read More...
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Games
on Sun, Mar 4 2007
Filed under: Society, Phrogram, computer science, Education
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Find out why Phrogram is an effective way to teach computer programming at introductory and intermediate levels. Also learn about the options for our E ducational Volume Discount Licensing (EVDL) program. Phrogram can be easily configured to run in a school network environment. If you have questions...
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Documentation
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davidw
on Mon, Feb 5 2007
Filed under: education, learning, schools, license, academic
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This is a fun, visually rich and very kid-friendly version of the beginner's tutorial for Phrogram. Please use this document for "non-commerical purposes" only ... if you're confused about what that might mean, you're totally safe just reading, trying it out, showing it to your...
Posted to
Documentation
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davidw
on Sun, Feb 4 2007
Filed under: Tutorial, education, learning