I’m working on some software that teaches programming through a “learn by doing” approach. It gives learners a way to create cool 3D graphical objects on their computer screen by writing simple computer programs.<\/p>\n
Recently I added a command-p<\/i> hot key. When you hit this key, the software automatically turns the graphical object on your computer screen into a file ready to be sent to a 3D printer — so you can bring your creation into the real world.<\/p>\n
Today I was speaking with an educator who was interested in knowing whether students could use this software to study history. In such a course students would use programming to manipulate historical events, places and people, as well as the relationships between them. Imagine being able to loop through the battles of a war, or the economic policies of a presidential administration, to retrieve a sequence of events that can tell the story of that era from some unique perspective.<\/p>\n
But if hitting command-p<\/i> for a graphical simulation that you’ve just programmed results in an object being created on a 3D printer, then what should be created if you hit command-p<\/i> on a historical narrative that you’ve just programmed?<\/p>\n
Hmm. Maybe your “printout” should be a Ken Burns style documentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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