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January 25, 2012Teaching programming to a nine-year-oldMy younger daughter is nine. After watching me sit with a laptop all term preparing material using Scheme, she wanted to know something about it. She is self-taught on the application side of computing (browsers, paint programs, word processing) but knows nothing of computation itself. So I opened up a DrScheme Interactions window. "You add like this," I said, typing in (+ 3 4). No problem. "Try some other operations, some bigger numbers." It looks like a calculator without a ten-digit limit.Posted by Jim Zellmer at January 25, 2012 2:04 AM Subscribe to this site via RSS/Atom: ![]() Comments
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