我正在寻找最酷的事情，你可以在几行简单的代码。我相信你可以用Haskell用15行写一个Mandelbrot集，但是很难理解。
我的目标是启发学生编程很酷。
我们知道编程很酷，因为你可以创造任何你想象到的东西——它是最终的创意出口。我想激励这些初学者，让他们尽可能多地克服早期学习的困难。
Now, my reasons are selfish. I'm teaching an Intro to Computing course to a group of 60 half-engineering, half business majors; all freshmen. They are the students who came from underprivileged High schools. From my past experience, the group is generally split as follows: a few rock-stars, some who try very hard and kind of get it, the few who try very hard and barely get it, and the few who don't care. I want to reach as many of these groups as effectively as I can. Here's an example of how I'd use a computer program to teach:
Here's an example of what I'm looking
for: a 1-line VBS script to get your
computer to talk to you:
CreateObject("sapi.spvoice").Speak InputBox("Enter your text","Talk it")
I could use this to demonstrate order
of operations. I'd show the code, let
them play with it, then explain that
There's a lot going on in that line,
but the computer can make sense of it,
because it knows the rules. Then I'd
show them something like this:
4(5*5) / 10 + 9(.25 + .75)
And you can see that first I need to
do is (5*5). Then I can multiply for
4. And now I've created the Object. Dividing by 10 is the same as calling
Speak - I can't Speak before I have an
object, and I can't divide before I
have 100. Then on the other side I
first create an InputBox with some
instructions for how to display it.
When I hit enter on the input box it
evaluates or "returns" whatever I
entered. (Hint: 'oooooo' makes a
funny sound) So when I say Speak, the
right side is what to Speak. And I
get that from the InputBox.
So when you do several things on a
line, like:
x = 14 + y;
You need to be aware of the order of
things. First we add 14 and y. Then
we put the result (what it evaluates
to, or returns) into x.
这就是我的目标，有一堆很酷的例子来演示，并在他们玩得开心的时候教他们。我在我室友身上尝试了这个例子，虽然我可能不会把它作为第一课，但她喜欢它，并学到了一些东西。
一些很酷的数学程序，可以做出漂亮的图形或容易理解的形状，这是很好的想法，我将研究这些。这里有一些复杂的actionscript示例，但这有点太高级了，我不能教flash。你还有什么其他的想法吗?
许多人发现赌博令人兴奋和激励。您可以自己构建一个21点发牌者类，公开一个接口。然后，让孩子们建立一个21点玩家班。
你可以为每个学生的解决方案建立一个图表，显示金钱与时间的关系来激励他们完成任务。
这个系统的美妙之处在于你可以在几周内产生增量解决方案:
最简单的解决方法是总是低于某个水平。这大概有5行代码。
一个更好的解决方案是看看发牌人暴露了什么，并据此调整你的击球。
一个更好的解决方案是考虑到你所拥有的实际卡片——而不仅仅是它们价值的总和。
最终的解决方案可能是记录多手牌的发牌情况。(dealer对象可以对player对象进行dealerisshuffshuffle (int numberofdeck)调用，告诉玩家有多少副牌。)
另一个可能的方向是让游戏更具竞争性——玩家不是通过与庄家对抗来赢钱，而是与其他人的解决方案对抗。当然，为了公平起见，你必须轮换谁先击球。
和大多数其他评论者一样，我开始写代码是为了解决数学问题(或者为我所设计的糟糕游戏创造图像，如《夺宝奇兵大战僵尸》)。
真正让我开始学习数学和编程的是基于文本，选择自己的冒险风格的游戏……转向更多基于图像的游戏。我一开始是给图纸上色和绘制像素，直到我接触到几何……发现了如何用方程来画曲线、直线、方框等。
我的观点是，我可以真正进入处理(http://processing.org/)，其中典型的程序看起来像这样:
void setup()
{
size(200, 200);
noStroke();
rectMode(CENTER);
}
void draw()
{
background(51);
fill(255, 204);
rect(mouseX, height/2, mouseY/2+10, mouseY/2+10);
fill(255, 204);
int inverseX = width-mouseX;
int inverseY = height-mouseY;
rect(inverseX, height/2, (inverseY/2)+10, (inverseY/2)+10);
}
对我来说，这就是未来的“Logo”。
这里有一些简单的“hello world”示例，可以让人们快速地绘制和更改代码，并看到事情是如何崩溃的，以及会产生哪些奇怪的“意外”……一直到更高级的交互和分形创造……
这个c代码可能有点混乱，但我发现它非常强大
#include <unistd.h>
float o=0.075,h=1.5,T,r,O,l,I;int _,L=80,s=3200;main(){for(;s%L||
(h-=o,T= -2),s;4 -(r=O*O)<(l=I*I)|++ _==L&&write(1,(--s%L?_<L?--_
%6:6:7)+"World! \n",1)&&(O=I=l=_=r=0,T+=o /2))O=I*2*O+h,I=l+T-r;}
结果是这样的…只有3行……
一种分形的Hello World…
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