It's that time again . . .

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It's that time again . . .

Post by richmond62 » Mon Feb 06, 2023 12:58 pm

. . . when I remind LiveCode what they are not paying attention to . . .

The REAL educational advantages of LiveCode.

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Re: It's that time again . . .

Post by richmond62 » Mon Feb 06, 2023 1:01 pm

Where are relatively simple exercises like this on the website?

Relatively simple, yet using:

1. variables

2. conditional loops

3. switch . . . case

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Re: It's that time again . . .

Post by richmond62 » Wed Feb 08, 2023 11:10 am

You have to love kids who suffer from Oliver Twist Syndrome . . .

However, unlike Mr Bumble, when a child cries out for 'meat' I'll give it to them . . .
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Pythagoras might have liked this as well.

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Re: It's that time again . . .

Post by richmond62 » Thu Feb 09, 2023 9:21 am

The fantastic thing about LiveCode, from a pedagogical point of view, is that one can
readily build computerised versions of educational coding toys without any undue effort:

https://www.headu.com/en/schede/headu/MU25411/
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Re: It's that time again . . .

Post by richmond62 » Sat Feb 11, 2023 5:29 pm

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Re: It's that time again . . .

Post by richmond62 » Sat Feb 11, 2023 5:31 pm

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Of course the best way to use this sort of exercise for teaching LiveCode is to
have the game/toy on the table by the computers so children can go back and forth
between it and LiveCode and think about how they MANUALLY manipulate components
of the game, and how the computer has to be instructed how to manipulate components
on-screen.

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Re: It's that time again . . .

Post by richmond62 » Sun Feb 12, 2023 12:23 pm

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/n39j7z6pozztp ... e.zip?dl=0
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As this is a complete, utter and shameless rip-off of the functionality of the HEADU product

[all images I prepared myself]

anyone who wants to download this and play with it can: BUT I would suggest that no-one be so daft
as to attempt to palm it off anywhere as any sort of copyrighted work.

I made this, not in a spirit of stealing, ripping-off, or anything else, beyond using the idea and imagery
as a way of demonstrating how LiveCode may be used as a stepping-stone programming environment to
take learners from physically manipulatable models to computer modelling and coding.

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