20 Sep
2014
20 Sep
'14
8:04 p.m.
Brian,
On Sep 18, 2014, at 7:06 PM, Brian wrote:
It's starting to look like we might be using this
simulator in our Intro
to CS class here at Drexel this quarter. ...
Yup! That looks so cool I talked my daughter into trying it on her iPad 1, iOS 5.1. It
works!
She?s taking a self-paced CS intro course this fall. I think this may have just gotten
added to her curriculum.
What are some reasonable Exercises I could assign her?
Is there a list of problems from the manual that?s posted somewhere?
- Mark
21 Sep
21 Sep
2:41 p.m.
Yup! That looks so cool I talked my daughter into
trying it on
her iPad 1, iOS 5.1. It works! She?s taking a self-paced CS
intro course this fall. I think this may have just gotten added
to her curriculum.
Sweet! I'm so glad to hear it's already being helpful in an
educational context. I never cease to be fascinated how
often the quickest hacks turn out to be the most useful
results.
What are some reasonable Exercises I could assign her?
The usual sorts of things that come to mind would be finding
the sum of n numbers. The first data card would have the
value n, and then the following n cards would have the values
to sum. Another fun one would be to test whether a number
is prime. Given that there are no multiply or divide instructions,
that could be challenging. On the other hand, there's probably
enough memory space to do a seive to find all the primes
between 2 and somewhere around 60 or 70. A functional
tic-tac-toe might be feasable. The manual has a chapter on
developing a program to play nim.
Is there a list of problems from the manual that?s
posted
somewhere?
In theory, I think I have a scan of the manual somewhere.
I just have to figure out where. Otherwise, I'm not sure of
anywhere the manual (or even the examples) is posted.
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