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[Marty Billingsley]

> To start, let's share who we are!

I'm Marty Billingsley and I teach computer science to high school and
middle school students at the Laboratory Schools that are part of the
University of Chicago.

I'm using RR in my 8th grade class to teach the concepts of programming.
We use a games-based curriculum in that the final project is to design and
create a video game.  Since this is a short course (one quarter) and the
kids start from ground zero, the final projects are often rather simple.

We try to cover basics like using variables, sub-routines and functions,
repeat loops, if statements, etc.  Hopefully the kids will carry these
ideas into other programming classes they take in the future.

We also touch on some bigger-picture topics like user interface design and
artifical intelligence.

I've taught the same course for ten years now, using HyperCard until
RunRev came to our attention two years ago.  This sounds like a different
way of using Rev in the schoolplace than the way most other folks are
using it.

 - marty

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Marty Billingsley (marty at ucls.uchicago.edu)
The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools