Proteus Design Suite
The Proteus Design Suite is a proprietary software tool suite used primarily for electronic design automation. The software is used mainly by electronic design engineers and technicians to create schematics and electronic prints for manufacturing printed circuit boards.
It was developed in Yorkshire, England by Labcenter Electronics Ltd and is available in English, French, Spanish and Chinese languages.
The first version of what is now the Proteus Design Suite was called PC-B and was written by the company chairman, John Jameson, for DOS in 1988. (περισσότερα…)
Proteus software for beginners
Presentation of Proteus for beginners
Why is computational thinking important?
Computational thinking is the building blocks of our digital world, with the concepts forming the basis of much computer science. Computer scientists are interested in finding the most-efficient ways to solve problems, maximising accuracy and minimising resources (e.g. time / space). They look for solutions which can be applied elsewhere to save resources in the future.
Plenty of other people benefit from computational thinking, and not just when using computers themselves. A team of software engineers creating a new game is not really so different from teachers working together on a school play: in each case, it’s necessary to identify the key steps or rules for getting a complex task done, thereby breaking it down (decomposing it) into smaller, more-manageable parts. It can also be helpful to consider the ways in which previous projects were successfully accomplished.
https://www.barefootcomputing.org/
Program a teacher / Sandwich Bot
Children have to program their teacher to make a jam sandwich using basic commands. It is not as easy a it seems. You can view the planning here. http://code-it.co.uk/csplanning.html (Sandwich Making Algorithm)