Re: AP CS Teacher

Posted by ybakos on Jul 10, 2012; 2:20pm
URL: http://nand2tetris-questions-and-answers-forum.52.s1.nabble.com/AP-CS-Teacher-tp4025024p4025025.html

Hi Raymond,
I'm so glad you're experiencing the book and work the way you have.

One popular approach for sharing the material with younger students that lack programming experience is to focus only on the hardware half of the book. I've used TECS with "gifted" middle-school children and, as a whole, they were able to handle all the hardware projects without any issues. When you get to the Hack Assembly chapter (before creating the CPU and Computer), you can work these out by hand rather than writing an assembler.

Also, familiarize yourself with CODE by Petzold; another good book to sneak into your curriculum, and it complements TECS incredibly well.