[REBOL] Re: Teaching Rebol => was:{Re: Re: Parsing comment}
From: tim:johnsons-web at: 28-Sep-2002 15:04
* Carl Read <[carl--cybercraft--co--nz]> [020928 13:52]:
> Well, I was thinking of it being just another script the kids would
> run on the computers they were using so they could test any CGI they
> did themselves by looking at it with a browser. I wrote such a
> script so I can test the CGI I do locally before sticking it on a
> "real" server. I just have two REBOL consoles open, one for the
> server and one for the script I'm working on.
Ahh... talking about a simple socket server..
> > I beg to differ, even eight graders get that one,
>
> And I still don't know how old an eight (eighth?) grader would be.
> This is one area where numbers win out over words in an international
> forum Tim. (:
Sorry: Eighth grade is middle school - the eight of 12 grades
and would precede freshmen high school. 13 - 14 years of age or so
> Girls ain't dumb. (;
>
You're preaching to the converted ... Grace Hopper (Admiral Grace Hopper
at that) developed COBOL, and my niece Jessica interned at RT two
years ago.... Besides I married one....
> If you were trying to attract kids to writing as a profession, would
> you bring in writers of fiction or writers of car manuals or adverts
> as examples? In other words, would you chose a writer of accounting
> software over a games programmer to inspire the kids?
I'd take what I could get in this limited area .... and I show them
some of my CGI sites built with rebol. We are inviting them to
download 'view to play with, and maybe there's some rebol/view
scripts online for them to run?
> > For those of you reading this, Carl took part in a mailing list
> > that was set up for this class a year ago. It was terribly dead,
>
> Yes - it didn't really get started. It would really need at least two
> enthusastic posters amongst the students to start the ball rolling I
> think, but that didn't happen.
Yeah, couldn't even get a good argument going....
> > we are trying a chat room now, but it will be staffed by the
> > teacher of record and myself only one hour a week <sigh> and
> > paranoid school sysops aren't letting anyone else in (so far).
>
> I'm wondering if the reason you only got an Australian and a New
> Zealander as the REBOL "mentors" had anything to do with the less
> litigious nature of Downunder culture? I can imagine those in the US
> and probably elsewhere not considering it worth the risk to get
> involved. Sad. Do kids think lawyers are sexy by any chance?
<sigh>We are going beyond the school district here... I'm disheartened
to report that the Human Services profession here is very anti-
technology and has turned down many opportunities for tekkies to
help them.
Example: We have a very high suicide rate among teen-agers here,
and when several of us local programmers offered to build software
to help crisis line staffers, we got no takers ... just one
sad example
</sigh>
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