mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:41 pm Post subject: I turned my kids into bad BASIC programmers |
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In a small class of basic elementary students we were doing a lesson on comparatives like "bigger", "faster", "cuter", etc.
I took all the students but one, lined them up in front of the class, and then had the one remaining kid perform a classic bubble sort to order the kids from shortest to tallest, using the comparative "taller". Is Wendy taller than Ellen? Yes. Wendy move to the right. Is Wendy taller than Peter? Yes. Wendy moves to the right. Is Peter taller than Ellen? No? Peter moves to the left. Etc.
As a bad BASIC programmer, I never did grasp how to run a quicksort on an array or a class of 11 year olds.
In other matters, I was editing a student's English speech for some competition. The topic was "Your Family." The kid had a line that ran "My sister is very pretty but kind of chubby. We call her 'flower pig'." |
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