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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