[REBOL] Re: REBOL curriculum
From: tim:johnsons-web at: 14-Aug-2001 8:31
Hi Chr:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:54:38AM +0200, CRS - Psy Sel/SPO, COUSSEMENT, Christophe,
CPN wrote:
> Because I got a few person for working on my REBOL-projects, I will start a
> serie of REBOL course - from initiation to advanced level .
>
> In first instance I would base the curriculum on the same structure as the
> /Core user manual, which seems to me a good beginning point.
>
> Is anybody confronted to the same problem of teaching REBOL ? What the
> structure do you use ? What's your feeling about it ?
I design and taught an online introduction to programming,
with rebol as the medium, last year. I believe the class is
going to run again this comming semester.
The class was designed with freshman-sophomore students as the
target and for a non-programmer, certified instructor.
I stress that this was "not" a course on rebol, as much as an
introduction. It was written as the first of four, each in
a different language (rebol, python, perl, C/C++)
I think that the curriculum should designed around the target...
but read on...
> Any comments should be welcome... Perhaps we could (with the help of RT ?)
> set up a standardized curriculum, as it exists for other -mostly commercial-
> languages (as PowerBuilder for instances)
Now, this is a subtle difference here.. Having rebol instruction
for people with exisiting programming experience would help
rebol "advance the cause".
Perhaps also, a series of "starter kits", ex: Starter kit in
CGI: how to put together a working CGI/HTML library.
OR
"From C" to rebol: I was faced with having to "unlearn" C
a little to write rebol
Perhaps also, a series of "starter kits", ex: Starter kit in
CGI: how to put together a working CGI/HTML library.
OR
"From C" to rebol: I was faced with having to "unlearn" C
a little to write rebol.
MTCW (and before my coffee) :>)
Good thoughts! Noble objective!
tj