denisnazarov/gist:223f905cf0ca2a019928

## gistfile1.txt
- Seymour Papert (student of Piaget)
    - "The Children's Machine"
    - "Mindstorms"
    - LOGO (MIT)
    - "before the end of the century, people will buy children toys with as much computer power as the great IBM computers currently selling for millions of dollars"
- Jean Piaget

p414
- "in teaching the computer how to think, children embark on an exploration about how they themselves think"
- "thinking about thinking turns the child into an epistemologist, an experience not even shared by most adults"
- interested in the difference between precomputer cultures and "computer cultures"
- "the computer might have more fundamental effects on intellectual development than did other new technologies, including television or even printing"
- "the metaphor of computer as a mathematics-speaking entity"
- "when a child learns to program, the process of learning is transformed"
- "the new knowledge is a source of power and is experienced as such from the moment it begins to form in the child's mind"
- "concrete" thinking vs "formal" thinking
- combinatorial thinking: one has to reason in terms of all possible states of a system
- until recently there was not a popular name for programming, no word for "nested loops", no word for the double-counting bug
- there are no words for powerful ideas computerists refer to as "bug" and debugging"
- without the incentive or the materials to build powerful, concrete ways to think about problem solving systematically, children are force to appraoch such problems in a groping, abstract fashion
- "motivated largely by the idea that children could also benefit, perhaps even more than the psychologists, from the way in which computer models seemed to be able to give concrete form to areas of knowledge that had previously appeared to intangible and abstract"
- "when you learn to program a computer you almost never get it right the first time"
- "as kwowing how to use a computer becomes increasingly necessary for effective social and economic participation, the position of the underprivileged could worsen, and the computer could exacerbate existing class distinctions"
- the computer's "holding power," so feared by critics, becomes a useful educational tool
- "writing means making a rough draft and refining it over a considerable period of time"
	- Seymour Papert (student of Piaget)
	- "The Children's Machine"
	- "Mindstorms"
	- LOGO (MIT)
	- "before the end of the century, people will buy children toys with as much computer power as the great IBM computers currently selling for millions of dollars"
	- Jean Piaget

	p414
	- "in teaching the computer how to think, children embark on an exploration about how they themselves think"
	- "thinking about thinking turns the child into an epistemologist, an experience not even shared by most adults"
	- interested in the difference between precomputer cultures and "computer cultures"
	- "the computer might have more fundamental effects on intellectual development than did other new technologies, including television or even printing"
	- "the metaphor of computer as a mathematics-speaking entity"
	- "when a child learns to program, the process of learning is transformed"
	- "the new knowledge is a source of power and is experienced as such from the moment it begins to form in the child's mind"
	- "concrete" thinking vs "formal" thinking
	- combinatorial thinking: one has to reason in terms of all possible states of a system
	- until recently there was not a popular name for programming, no word for "nested loops", no word for the double-counting bug
	- there are no words for powerful ideas computerists refer to as "bug" and debugging"
	- without the incentive or the materials to build powerful, concrete ways to think about problem solving systematically, children are force to appraoch such problems in a groping, abstract fashion
	- "motivated largely by the idea that children could also benefit, perhaps even more than the psychologists, from the way in which computer models seemed to be able to give concrete form to areas of knowledge that had previously appeared to intangible and abstract"
	- "when you learn to program a computer you almost never get it right the first time"
	- "as kwowing how to use a computer becomes increasingly necessary for effective social and economic participation, the position of the underprivileged could worsen, and the computer could exacerbate existing class distinctions"
	- the computer's "holding power," so feared by critics, becomes a useful educational tool
	- "writing means making a rough draft and refining it over a considerable period of time"