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We are proposing a tool designed to help apprenticeship of parallelism and communication, for different kinds of audiences such as schools, colleges and training centers for adults. The system is based on the “micro-world” concept defined by Seymour Papert. Graphical simulation appears insufficient for achieving this purpose so we prefer an interactive environment: a network of real hardware and software actors. We use some ‘pedagogical robotic’ materials, in particular static and mobile actors. Each actor is equipped with a board designed with a transputer, running a Lisp interpreter. We present our hardware and software choices respectively for this project which is still in progress. Afterwards two contexts using this environment are shown.
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Darche, P., Nowak, G. (1993). ActNet - A Heterogeneous Network of Actors for Learning of Parallelism, Communication, and Synchronization. In: Denis, B. (eds) Control Technology in Elementary Education. NATO ASI Series, vol 116. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58026-0_23
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