RE: [LINK] Promoting education in Australia

From: Chirgwin, Richard (Richard.Chirgwin@informa.com.au)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2001 - 10:08:53 EST


Whereas these days, trying to find decent "teach kids to program" packages
is a pain in the...some exist, but are almost unpurchasable in Australia.
Any ideas?
RC

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Healy [mailto:thealy@magna.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2001 9:21
To: Tony Barry; Stephen Loosley
Cc: link@www.anu.edu.au; hoole.kevin.t@edumail.vic.gov.au
Subject: RE: [LINK] Promoting education in Australia

Tony Barry wrote:

> In 1978 I bought a z80 based Tandy TRS-80 Microcomputer. As a result
> two of my children are in IT. If they wanted games, which they did,
> they had to write them themselves or type in listings and debug them
> and in the process learn the computing languages involved. I don't
> think they teach that way.

I think that's brilliant. You have achieved an outcome our governments spend
millions on, and in which they still fail.

Regards, Tony Healy



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