Re: [BLACKBOX] news from Belarus

From: [at]} <CFB>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:06:08 +1030

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>From: BlackBox [mailto:BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
>F.V.Tkachov
>Sent: Friday, 24 October 2008 7:10 AM
>To: BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
>Subject: [BLACKBOX] news from Belarus
>
>Hello everyone,
>
>A piece of good news:
>
>BlackBox has been approved by the Ministry of Education of the
>Republic of Belarus for use in schools to teach programming to
>kids of ages 11-17.
>Here is the official page:
>http://www.adu.by/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=770
>They planned an experiment of 4 years, but after the first,
>teachers lined up to join, so they just approved it.
>

That is good news! Your part of the world seems to be very active on
introducing school students to programming. e.g. earlier this year the
Russian government did a licensing deal with CodeGear for the use of Delphi
and C++ Builder:

"CodeGearT Software Development Tools To Be Installed on up to 1 Million
PC's in Russian School System"

http://www.codegear.com/article/37605

Maybe I should have opted for the Russian language class after all, when I
was at school ;-)

>There have been a considerable progress with spreading
>BlackBox in Russian schools, too.
>
>Helmut Zinn would recognize his Turtle on the photos in a
>series of reports from the classes for 11-year olds I helped
>to conduct this Spring (encouraged by the Belarus example):
>http://www.inr.ac.ru/~info21/troitsklicej/vtorojetap1.htm
>
>Just click on the links in the second line from the top to go
>through all the reports. It's all in Russian of course, but
>there are some cute photos, so you'll get an idea.
>

Google Translation tools (Right-mouse popup menu > Page Info > Translate
Page into English) make it sort of readable

e.g.

"All participants succeeded for 1 hour to make Cherepashku anything to draw.
The people (for some reason is a mass of bruises), obviously, remains very
happy and proud of the first designs:"


Regards,
Chris Burrows

Armaide: Oberon-07 Development System for ARM processors
http://www.armaide.com

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