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good old times
MrTAToad:
You need to get GLBasic for the iPad up and running!
fuzzy70:
Ian Price:
--- Quote ---knew more than the teacher in regards to coding.
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Same here. We didn't even have computer studies, but we did have a teacher that knew a (little) bit about coding.
fuzzy70:
We had a Research Machines RM 380Z with 2x 8" floppy drives & green screen monitor. Only 1 of them & it was chained to a trolly. Only an adult would have been able to steal it as this piece of kit weighed shitloads lol. It wasn't until about the 4th or 5th year of secondary school that we got BBC Micros by which time we had a new Comp Studies teacher.
The original teacher was a chemistry one I believe who got thrown straight in the deep end the poor sod. I will never forget when he said "Insert the disk then press 'B' on the keyboard for bootstrap" & when asked why it was called "bootstrap" he just stared blankly into space. Took him 2 weeks to find the answer to that :D.
Lee
okee:
--- Quote ---I think the kids of today don´t have too much interesting about code... only Play... in the most of cases...
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I took the kids (age 6 + 11) to a Coderdojo today, ok they had a choice between Scratch and Html but it's a start
They loved it, about 140 kids turned up, they're starting to crop up around the country here and the guy that started
it is travelling around the world helping groups that want to start. It's free very casual and they have loads of
mentors going around helping.
https://twitter.com/#!/shoyne/status/180330842382548992/photo/1/large
http://coderdojo.com/
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