[Lazarus] Feeback wanted: Tutoring kids with Pascal project idea

[Ralf Quint]

On 4/26/2019 1:08 PM, Travis Ayres via lazarus wrote:
> Avoid the most pertinent subject for their age bracket that led a huge 
> number of us into the field.
>
> Weird flex, but ok. In adultspeak: That's a questionable pedagogic 
> choice.

+1

In that age group, it will be hard to get their intention/interest 
without somehow involving games.

But properly structuring to write a game can teach a lot of useful 
programming skills. Pong can be quite challenging if you kind of add the 
physics aspect and/or events, that might be a bit tough for the lower 
end of that age range.

For an adult (ok, early college students, who's major was not CS), I 
used to use Solitaire (Klondike, first in a text screen version, to 
focus on the logic) as a project. Minesweeper is also something that can 
be used, again in plain text, as using graphics is easily getting quite 
evolved depending on the underlying operating system(s).

Ralf


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