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cablehead / nu-adventure

Nushell, text adventures and intros to computing (target audience, the intersection of fans of old skool text adventure games and parents of children <=10 🤣)
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pedagogical suggestions #1

Open maxim-uvarov opened 3 weeks ago

maxim-uvarov commented 3 weeks ago

I believe that in the very first steps of teaching, introducing git cloning and import commands is a bit too much, as those actions are very abstract and don't have any relevant objects in the world to which they can be connected.

https://github.com/cablehead/nu-adventure/blob/952c3206f94d85f568f970fc42c37f71bcf5f406/README.md?plain=1#L60-L61

I would recommend just do 2-3 actions simple moves, that might have an understandable connections to the real world.

look, go, grab, open, apply - understandable things. I think it would be better just to use them at the beginning. To teach how to press keys, how to read the output.

And only after girls obtain this skills - to teach them the basic pure nushell abstractions.

And another thing - I would suggest you just to show them yourself the first mission completions, and just to ask to repeat after you.

cablehead commented 3 weeks ago

introducing git cloning and import commands is a bit too much

haha, totally. those steps are intended for the assistant to run. I handed them laptop after the bat ../intro.md

I'm trying to decide if I should really lock down the environment: so it's only possible to type commands that are intended to be used. e.g. you could break out of the game instantly with cd ../character.. or if leaving things with raw Nushell available adds to the experience for young learners. - If I do go the "really lock things down route" is building on top off Nushell helpful, vs a basic game parsing loop?

And then I also need to decide: am I conflating goals? Should I narrow focus on either intro to the command line, but perhaps not for people who can barely read, or: focus on introducing computers at a raw level for 7 y/o. Not sure I made sense with the last point? heh.

I appreciate your interest! It's just what I was hoping for posting these notes

cablehead commented 3 weeks ago

look, go, grab, open, apply - understandable things. I think it would be better just to use them at the beginning. To teach how to press keys, how to read the output.

Yeah, really locking things down, at least a first, seems important. I wonder if it's possible to "strip" out all Nushell's builtin to expose are really limited environment?