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jiml wrote: Wed Sep 02, 2020 4:28 pm Richard wrote:

This is where LC could shine: Imagine a point-and-click system in layers, which eventually arrives at full scripting.

Imagine an authoring tool with 5 levels of power that defaulted to easiest, most basic level, allowing you to progress through that power and complexity at your own pace. You could call it HyperCard. That might have some success in the educational market.

Yes, the broad notion of "levels" goes back to the foundations of computing, and I certainly wouldn't claim to have invented it. HC's levels were mostly focused on abilities, or privileges, allowing ever deeper levels of modification. In that sense we could look to Unix permissions as the original model that inspired it.

The form of levels I'm sketching out is more fundamental. Privileges are just a part of it. More salient is that the entire UI transforms at different levels. In that sense it may be more like game levels, but even a step further, in which different levels move you not just to a different layout, but to an entirely different game.

The lower levels are very Scratch-like, moving up to things similar to HC's "Authoring" level, eventually arriving in fully-open LiveCode.

If you know of any relevant grants or other potential funding sources please let me know.

I really wonder whether a grant-aiding body would underwrite a private company.

The first paid project I ever did was funded by a grant (from the US Department of Energy).

When nonprofits need support services, they often employ for-profit vendors to supply them.

And not all grants come from nonprofits.

Funding is a diverse world.

Richard,

Your idea of 'game-ifying' programming is very intriguing!
'A spoonful of sugar' hook for students.

JimL

Richard,

as in "Gaskin" or in 'getting Richmond's name wrong'?

Honestly the tool or code doesn't matter. It is the ability to take the tools available and apply them to solve problems. I don't think that is going to change anytime soon.

"You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently."
- R. Buckminster Fuller

FourthWorld wrote: Fri Sep 04, 2020 4:39 am "You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently."
- R. Buckminster Fuller

However, there are a lot of people who accept things at face value and do not think at all
(if by 'think' we mean question and analyse).

I teach English as a Foreign Language in a private setting parallel to a school setting where 'learning'
is seen as the ability to memorise factoids and regurgitate them in exams. This not only does not
involve thinking, it stops thinking.

As far as I am concerned anything (so long as it is not illegal, immoral or harmful in some other way)
that 'pricks' the brain/mind/soul (वुदिधहमनस् अहंकर ) to think has to be good.