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Ian's Final Day Blog
Submitted by iburns on December 20, 2005 - 2:47pm.Red: I'm a bit puzzled as to why my Starlogo I installed at home has some differences to the one used here. I think it has something to do with a jar file.
Yellow: More instructors (maybe called "facilitators"?) so more people could be helped. Macs weren't bad, but the mouse seemed to take too much movement to move around the screen. This really is small, but it is the main thing I noticed with the computers.

Blog Day 1
Submitted by iburns on December 19, 2005 - 2:52pm.About my day:
What worked:
I like the presentation style. I really enjoyed the time to play with the programs individually and make modifictions, more of this would be good. Good lunch break time. Things in general are flexible (such as schedule, though we try, small tangents still happen), which makes for a generally fun time.
What didn't work:
Could have gone faster, its difficult to modify the program to do a lot of things until we know how to detect collisions. I think that it would work better if we were taught a lot of what we will learn (after we know the basics of Starlogo programs) and have fewer, longer breaks to play with modifications so we get to modifications with more advanced abilities like collisions (so they are more interesting) faster.


