[Olpc-socal] [IAEP] (no subject)

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi Steve and all...I liked that too. Did you notice the last part of the header in that page of code: "Hahahahahahah"!Caryl

Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 15:51:07 -0500
Subject: Re: [IAEP] (no subject)
From: sthomas1 at gosargon.com
To: cbigenho at hotmail.com
CC: support-gang at laptop.org; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; olpc-socal at lists.laptop.org; localfiteam at geekid.org

Great talk.  My favorite part was where he showed some Java code and said:
Now, for some of you, when you hear about this, it might seem sort of strange about everybody learning to code. When many people think of coding, they think of it as something that only a very narrow sub-community of people are going to be doing, and they think of coding looking like this. And in fact, if this is what coding is like, it will only be a narrow sub-community of people with special mathematical skills and technological background that can code.
 We really need new ways to think about programming.  
Cheers,StephenP.S. Here's one nice clip from Dan Ingall's talk at JSConf 2012: http://youtu.be/QTJRwKOFddc?t=12m for some "new" way to think about programming.  I really like the use of connecting objects via drag and drop and connectors.




On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:





A neat TED talk by Mitch Resnick about why (and how) kids need to learn to code. http://bit.ly/TreN5K Be sure to watch to the end. You're never too old to learn to code!

Caryl
 		 	   		  

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