Uses a creative approach to teach the basic skills and concepts of programming quickly. This edition offers excellent insights into problem solving and program design processes. It will also improve comprehension of such computer science considerations as loop invariants and recursion. Includes 60 color line drawings.
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Since 1981, Karel the Robot has been instructing students in the delicate practice of programming. With all sorts of new ways to teach programming, is the Karel method still valid? As long as introductory programming is about learning to think, there's room for Karel and his universe. You learn in the beginning about Karel's world and how to move him around ever so carefully in his streets and avenues. From these simple steps, you learn how to improve Karel's programming vocabulary so that you can do more with less code. You then advance to conditional statements and more complicated repeating instructions, ending up with skills such as ordering your robot to search his space for objects. Karel proves that a lot of programming expertise can be taught with a few well-chosen exercises and an emphasis on logical thinking and clean programming. Let's hope Karel the Robot never ends up on the junk heap.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"I think Karel the Robot is the greatest way to introduce programming concepts that I have seen."
—Tim Thurman, University of Kansas
—Tim Thurman, University of Kansas
"I first used this language in 1981 as a student. I found it to be stimulating and challenging. In 1984 I began using Karel as a teacher. Since 1984 I have used Karel every term except one. That term represented an experiment to see how students would do without using Karel. I was not satisfied; the students performed poorly relative to those who used Karel."
—Peter Casey, Central Oregon Community College
"There are no bits, no bytes or bugaboos to intimidate new minds to computers. Pattis et al. have done a wonderful job in assembling a simple little robot, giving it a little language to understand, giving it a little world to wander about in, and finally giving it to [us] so that we can all play and learn in Karel's world."
—Billibon H. Yoshimi, Columbia University
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Karel lives in a world that is unexciting by present-day standards (there are no volcanoes, Chinese restaurants, or symphony orchestras), but it does include enough variety to allow the robot to perform simply stated, yet interesting, tasks. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
Tengo 10 años enseñando programación y gracias a Karel ahora mis alumnos entienden la programación más facilmente. Lo que facilita el aprendizaje de lenguajes más avanzados.
Es muy importante contar con el software para poder llevar a la práctica los conceptos, este es libre de costo si se utiliza en la Universidad, funciona muy bien y sin problemas en cualquier máquina.
Adicionalmente sugiero el diseñar previamente los mundos en el programa para que los alumnos trabajen solo en la programación y no en el diseño y asi no perder el objetivo de Karel.
Es muy importante contar con el software para poder llevar a la práctica los conceptos, este es libre de costo si se utiliza en la Universidad, funciona muy bien y sin problemas en cualquier máquina.
Adicionalmente sugiero el diseñar previamente los mundos en el programa para que los alumnos trabajen solo en la programación y no en el diseño y asi no perder el objetivo de Karel.
By Paul Lippert
Format:Paperback
Its concepts are amazing to any programmer but, widely known, I learned just as much from my Instructor in my post-secondary class then I did in this book. The Karel code also gets a little boring. However, to be a good programmer you need to know these concepts through and through, so I do find it useful as an introduction to programming. I don't recommend it to anyone who knows their own logical style well already; it will be useless to you.
By Andy
Format:Paperback
This book is very well written and I highly recommend it. It is interesting to read, and very comprehensive. Richard Pattis is my 15-127 professor. (I hope I get an A on the Mastery! ) Thanks.
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