One of the biggest limits we came across teaching with Scratch this year is the inability to write methods and use parameters. Methods, returns, and parameters are probably the only major concept in our intro CompSci class that we can’t teach in Scratch; so we introduced them in Alice this past year. It worked ok, [...]
Came across this post from a technology teacher in Cedar Park, Texas.
Much of what she talks about is the result of a conference she returned from in Austin a couple weeks ago. A conference that I, along with a few thousand other technology teachers, was also at. I even got talked into presenting a couple [...]
I've started playing around with Python, and the more I do the more I like it. Python makes it very easy to do simple, scripty type stuff, but also has the ability to do OOP if that need arises.
Here's a quick little function to determine if a string passed is a palindrome or not.
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def [...]