Do you have children? Do you intend to teach your kids programming? Did you have any attempt? This morning we are going to talk about education in IT area: What kinds of tools are existed for school and university purpose. How teachers can improve programming classes? How we can help teachers? Remember, all of them (pupils and teachers) are waiting for our help.

1. by Oleg Pashkevych
LET'S TEACH YOUR CHILD
PROGRAMMING
with Greenfoot

2. AGENDA
 Educational programming languages
 Greenfoot overview
 So far, so good… So what?
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3. LEVEL VS. LANGUAGE
Form Level Language
LightBot, Bill the Robot, Ступени,
1-2 No experience ПервоЛого, Karel, Baltie 2, Stagecast
Creator
RoboMind, Scratch, Etoys, Logo,
3-4 No experience Stagecast Creator, Guido van Robot,
Ступени
Scratch, Logo, Etoys, BASIC, Baltie 3,
5-8 Low Phrogram, Stagecast Creator, AgentSheets,
Alice
5-8 Satisfactory Pascal, Visual BASIC, Greenfoot, Squeak
High school Low Pascal, Visual BASIC, Greenfoot, Squeak
High school Satisfactory Any programming languages
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4. EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
 Scratch
Originally designed for elementary school children.
Came out of MIT. Used to teach programming at
Harvard.
 Alice
Designed for middle school children. Came out of
Carnegie Mellon.
 Greenfoot
Designed for high school and college students. Came
out of University of Kent (England).
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5. TARGET AGE GROUPS FOR ALICE,
SCRATCH AND GREENFOOT
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6. THE SCRATCH USER INTERFACE
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7. SCRATCH OVERVIEW
POSITIVES
 Scratch is an easy place to start because
 There are good beginners tutorials
 There are many, many (almost 200,000) Scratch projects online.
Most of them are games that your student can play
 It's pure drag-and-drop programming
NEGATIVES
 Scratch does not teach programming with functions.
 However, if you know Smalltalk, you can download the source
code for Scratch and write your own Scratch functions
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 Scratch is based on the language Squeak,
which is based on the language Smalltalk. 7
 The Scratch team is based at MIT.

8. ALICE IDE
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9. ALICE OVERVIEW
POSITIVES
 Alice is a good second step after your child has learned
Scratch. It has most features of a real programming
language, including functions.
 The large number of graphics that come with Alice means you
can make professional looking "movies" very quickly.
 Alice is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
NEGATIVES
 There is no widely known website where you can share Alice
projects.
 There are few beginners tutorials.
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 Does not teach text based programming.

10. GREENFOOT IDE
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11. DESIGN GOALS
 From the student’s perspective, the goal is to make
programming engaging, creative and satisfying.
Ease of
use, Discoverability, Flexibility, Availability, Social
interaction/sharing. Extendibility.
 From the teacher’s perspective, the goal is for the
environment to actively help in teaching
important, universal programming concepts.
Visualization, Interaction, Concepts before syntax.
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13. MY EXPERIENCE + GREENFOOT = LIFE
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14. CODE SNIPPET
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15. ДЕЛО НЕ В СПОСОБНОСТЯХ,
А В ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ ПРОЦЕССА ОБУЧЕНИЯ
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16. LINKS
 http://www.greenfoot.org/
 http://greenroom.greenfoot.org/
 http://scratch.mit.edu/
 http://www.alice.org/
 http://cs.brown.edu/people/morgan/gamekit/
 http://processing.org/
 http://www.kodugamelab.com/
 http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Навчальні мови
програмування
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