Programming primer

<font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>Construction of toy Mema</font>

<font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>3 and 4 period</font>

<font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>During this lesson the children make their toys, and we shall name them Mema.</font>

<font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>It is necessary that every child has:</font>

- 9 matchboxes,
- colored in 9 different colors,
- and sticked together becoming a chest of drawers.

<font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>Comment for the teacher</font>

<font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>The purpose of Mema is to understand how a computer work. The terms they will encounter are the basic terms of programming, regardless on which computer or which programming language is used.</font>

• <font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>It is desirable for all children to have Memas with same colors of drawers, because if they had different colors some of problems were not possible to solve.</font>
• <font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>This problem appears with real hardware (real computers) and is cold compatibility, and is connected with all problems when some computers are not able to run a program, with is written for a different computer.</font>
• <font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>The main purpose of Mema is the help in understanding how the variables behave in main computer memory during a program is running.</font>

• <font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>During this lesson the teacher should avoid definitions of terms. The terms may be mentioned by the way and repeated when needed.</font>

• <font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>The goal is to adopt the terms through understanding the function of them, not through learning by hearth.</font>

<font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>Assignment:</font> <font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>To make a MEMA (picture 1)</font>

<font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>Picture 1. The toy named Mema</font>

<font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>During this lesson the children make their Memas.</font>

<font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>This is done so, that they stick together the matchboxes and color the drawers (all Memas in same colors).</font>

<font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>Side face of Mema may be wrapped with paper and decorated by drawings.</font>

<font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit> Comment : Children need for next lesson their Mema and a handful of beens.</font>

<font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>During making Memas, the teacher gives the instructions for making Memas, and may mention the terms like hardware, memory, compatibility…</font>

<font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>Click on link</font> INPUT <font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>and</font> <font inherit/arial,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>read instructions for next lesson. (Periods 5. and 6.)</font>