[erlang-questions] erlang and Kara

[Ivica Munitic]

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:24:50 +0100
"Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)" <ulf.wiger@REDACTED> wrote:

> 
> I subscribe to press releases from the Swedish Government
> (that's a lot of press releases), and one of the most
> recent ones was a non-committal promise to work extra
> hard to increase the number of women in the IT sector.
> The simple reasoning being that, since there's a shortage
> of IT expertise, it doesn't make sense to recruit from
> (mainly) only half the population.
> 
> Naturally, I thought about the excellent presentation
> at the Erlang workshop in Freiburg, where Frank Huch
> talked about using Kara and Ladybugs to teach high-school
> girls programming.
> 
> Here are the slides, and a paper, which are perhaps not as
> fun as the interactive session in Freiburg was:
> 
> http://www.erlang.se/workshop/2007/proceedings/12huch.pdf
> http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1300000/1292534/p93-huch.pdf?key1=1292534&key2=5682344911&coll=GUIDE&dl=&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
> 
> Quote:
> "After three days programming with Kara, we introduce Erlang’s
> features for concurrent and distributed programming to the pupils,
> which usually results in an 'Oh, what a pity!', when telling them
> that we do not program with Kara anymore."
> 
> Then, the students go on to implement a chat system.
> Recall that these are high-school students with no
> previous programming experience.
> 
> 
> There was a lot of interest at the workshop in seeing
> Kara released as an Open Source project. Has anything
> happened with that?
> 
> Maybe one could even get a research grant for adopting
> Kara to Swedish education...?
> 
> 
> 
> I guess we should start learning to say "ladybug" in lots
> of different languages:  (:
> 
> German  : Marienkäfer
> Swedish : nyckelpiga
> Spanish : mariquita
> French  : coccinelle
> Italian : coccinella
> Dutch   : Het lieveheersbeestje
> Japanese: tentoumushi (*)
> 
  Croatian: bubamara
> Corrections are welcome (probably also necessary).
> 
> (*) "ladybug" translated on-line to Kanji, then transliterated
> on-line to Romanji. At least, this translates back to "ladybug"
> in a romanji-to-English on-line translation."
> 
> BR,
> Ulf W
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