Programming languages at schools
Why is good the students know how speaking to a computer.
By Nelson
Peñaherrera Castillo. Photos Courtesy by Iván Rotta Saavedra.
SULLANA, Peru – The first time I sat down in front of a computer was in 1986. Actually, it was in front of some Atari or Commodore keyboard plugged to a 14-inch white-&-black TV during a vacation class.
It was the time when Michael
Knight spent speaking with a Pontiac car’s computer in an emblematic
TV series, apparently science-fiction that time. Today, many time later, I
speak to my smartphone’s
computer when I need verified answers about specific topics which I even write
this article.
We are not talking about artificial
intelligence only. Before it, the process to manage orders and have results
have to do with programming the device for it gives me a product or result.
In a free etimology, programming
means writing or outlining with anticipation, and amid the computation
world, it means setting up a set of orders and instructions inside a logic
sequence for achieving a result. The definition is mine, by the way, but it has
to do with something called logic
thinking – our ability to understand our surrounding world, how all
this relates because it is similar or different.
Buddy, wax the floor
Think of your dog. If the concept
of bone or toy comes into your head, or perhaps something
relatively abstract like pet, and all the realities and sentiments it
causes, we go on the right way.
Even, you can program
your dog to follow right orders. And if you don’t give them to it,the dog programs
to react before right situations so solving problems. Of course,if you set up a
dialogue, and unless the science points us
out another thing, the dog gets to these levels asking its instinct and
intuition.
Something similar happens wit
your lap-top, your cellphone, or even your appliances. Obviously, you couldn’t take
your vaccum-polisher out to walk at the park but one of my brothers has got one
at home which he can manage with voice commands in person or via an Internet
application. The device
uses low-power laser rays to scan around, it goes saving it in its memory. So,
when the user
asks it, it knows where removing the dust by and leaving the floor like a
mirror.
The classroom in an app
To reach these results, it
requires to create and set up a link with your device. “The programming
languages are the mean how I talk to a computer,” Sullana-based systems engineer
Iván Rotta Saavedra explains me. We are not talking about vanguard but, at
least, eight decades of fast development
until reaching the automation concept, that has spread slowly through
the planet.
Specialists warn as much as we
adapt not only to that reality but we cross over the user dimension to the
contents creator’s one, it’s probable our professional
future is guaranteed.
That’s why the actual education is
betting to teach programming languages to boys and girls since kindergarten,
not with the complexity of undergraduate studies or upper, but someway the generation
that just reaches our waist is digital-native, so it can engage to this knowledge fastly,
pretty aside if it is urban
or countryside.
What remains is assuring them
the access to high-performance technology
& connectivity.
What does it serve me for?
“However, I find it is not
following a methodology,” Iván Rotta criticizes. “Teaching a programming
language not having a special purpose makes no sense.” In fact, his undergrade thesis was
about how to apply robotics and augmented reality to achieve useful results in educational
environment.
At the moment, ElectroNorOeste
announced it is training 300 teachers in Piura and Tumbés about the use of Scratch,
a more-gaming-style programming language that allows to create little
applications which can improve the teaching/learning experience.
The pass we might take who
are not students or teachers is how to
join the experience of learning, understanding,
doing, creating,and sharing. So, we could jump up almost quantic in the technology
issue beyond the government policy is, or where your professional vocation goes
through.
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