![]() I think this one isn’t in the right direction.Ĭarnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Academy announces the release of ROBOTC2.0®, a programming language for robots and an accompanying suite of training tools that are easy enough for elementary students to use, but powerful enough for college-level engineering courses.Like the original, this latest version of ROBOTC is an implementation of the industry-standard C programming language and has a modern programming environment that can grow as students move from elementary through college-level robot programming…“Computer programming is not taught at the middle school level, yet hundreds of thousands of children gain their first programming experience with robots,” said Robin Shoop, director of the Robotics Academy. The folks at CMU do terrific work thaI rave about regularly here. They argue that it should all be C because it is the language that children “likely will use for years to come” and “will help them transition to those used by professionals.” The key criteria for a children’s programming is that it will help them in transitioning to industry? For 10-15 years later? Do we even know what people will be using in industry in 10-15 years? And should it really be the focus in elementary school to prepare these students for professional software development?.I don’t buy their numbers - I’d like to see the evidence. There’s a lot more CS in high school than elementary school, and relatively few high schools have robots. ![]() There’s a multiple of that actually taking CS classes in high school, but the multiplier is not ten.
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