Re: [tlug] What is Code?

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi Claus,


On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Claus Aranha <caranha@example.com> wrote:
> I will certainly take a look at CodeCombat.


CodeCombat is Python, by the way.  There are others that Hour of Code
used but they all seemed a bit far (IMHO) from actual programming.
(Perhaps the organizers would disagree with me.)


> Well, if you take a random person and throw them in Japan, sure. But
> if the person
> is actually interested in learning Japanese in the first place...


True.  But in a typical undergraduate class, I doubt everyone of them
would be interested in Japanese.  Maybe some aren't interested or some
are interested in anime and manga and didn't realize they had to read
novels.

I guess some people entering into a CS course associate CS with games.
I mean, if they are first year students, it's pretty hard to rewrite
or correct their preconceptions about the field...

Ray