On 1/4/05 8:18 PM, "Bernie Cosell" <bernie@fantasyfarm.com> wrote:
On 4 Jan 2005 at 17:41, The Purple Streak, Hilarie Or wrote:
Nope, I was referring to the original subject, a "bright 13-year-old". I think that folks like Seymore Papert and Wally Feurzig spent a fair bit of time pondering this problem and I'm pretty sure that their consensus is that drawing neat pictures [and making the turtle scoot around the furniture] is more "fun" [sic..:o)] than noticing that the 127,765th digit of 'e' is 7. [and when the turtle hits the wall or the like, it is more clear that there is a problem and what it might be, than if you've done some complicated sort algorthm and on the 125th test list it screwed up [because you got one of the boundary conditions wrong and that was the first data set with the particular 'situation']]
Seymour Papert was involved with Lego in the initial idea behind their MindStorms product, which I recommended earlier in this thread as a good way for a bright 13-year-old to learn programming: http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=timeline2 http://mindstorms.lego.com/eng/default.asp