REFLECTIONS ON TEACHING APL TO EIGHTH GRADERS Kristen Sternberg Computer Education Coordinator The Dalton School 108 East 89th Street New York, N. Y. 10128 In June of 1989 I completed my eighth year of teaching APL at the Dalton School, an independent preparatory school in New York City. Before teaching at Dalton, my previous computing experience had been an intensive class at Wesleyan University s 1981 summer sessionin Connecticut, where I had the opportunity to work on several early microcomputers (Atari 800, Apple II+, Radio Shack Model 1 Level) using BASIC. I also had accessto a PDP-20 mainframe computer on which I learned to program in FORTRAN, COBOL, and SPSS. Taking over the APL course, when I first started at Dalton, presented a lively challenge. It was early November and my classeswere already two months ahead of me in their studies. I set to work immediately. Our Advanced Computer, or APL, class is an elective open to eighth graders (13-14 years old) who have successfully completed Beginning Computer in their previous year. The beginning computer class is taught flowcharting and elementary algorithms and students learn to write programs in BASIC. Other activities during the school year include a
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Reflections on teaching APL to eighth graders
Sternberg, K.
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, Volume 19 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Jul 1, 1989
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