Comments on: Barbie learns Java

By: Jax

Jax — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:01:02 +0000

I fixed it.

There are teaching materials for KPL included in the main download, there’s a pdf tutorial and a whole bunch of example programs come in the devenv. Can’t help feeling that you’re more likely to get answers from the kpl ppl if you pop over to their forums though, much as I have done.

By: Libertus

Libertus — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:56:06 +0000

Sorry. That was me above.

By: Libertus

Libertus — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:55:15 +0000

Jon,

I had a brief look over the KPL website but haven’t had time to download and study the language system. Have you developed any teaching materials for KPL that I could download? I would be particularly interested in a language specification and any recommended approaches to teaching programming with KPL.

Have you tried teaching adults with KPL?

By: Jax

Jax — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:14:12 +0000

Hi Jon, welcome aboard. Will surely feed back on any kpl/ kids t-shirt, and do let me know if I can be of any assistance with other marketing ideas. Will try to pop along to your forums at some point as well

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:26:26 +0000

Hi Jax, one of the KPL guys here. Glad you found KPL, had fun with it, and took the time to blog! Word of mouth/blog is all the marketing we get, freeware as it is. I wanted to particularly thank you for the KPL t-shirt idea – it’s really a great big “Duh!” moment for me. If you come up with a cool design, please let us know, and we’ll work on one as well.

By: HelenJ

HelenJ — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:22:37 +0000

good resolution

By: Jax

Jax — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:41:51 +0000

It hasn’t in the slightest actually, I just made a resolution to not be swept along by life, take what I want from it, rather than the other way around iyswim.

I’ll have to see whether there’s a way to put her programs somewhere we can share them

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:36:59 +0000

You sound ever so cheerful lately Has the work/home life juggle started to settle into normality then?

I’m very impressed with Big, especially because I’m not 100% sure what it is she’s done (and I did follow the link…)

By: Katy

Katy — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:25:41 +0000

KPL looks interesting… will look at that more closely soon… So, did you get her a tee-shirt tehn????
Shame about the cat in the hat, I was thinking of getting that one for Becca but if it’s not the “real” story I’m not sure. Ho hum, will stick to the Disney Princess tat instead