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Teaching Kids Programming Discussion
This weekend Ashley Williams (@ag_dubs), Jeff Casimir (@j3) and I had a brief
discussion on Twitter about teaching programming to kids. We thought this would
be a topic that many other people might be interested in too, so I setup this
page in case anyone else wants to join the discussion.
We're not sure where this will lead - as a next step we could setup a Google
group, Discourse site, Basecamp or some other forum for a longer discussion.
Here's the original Twitter conversation:
@pat_shaughnessy
Doing a technical review of an upcoming Ruby book for kids - it's fun reviewing someone else's stuff for a change :)
@projct
@pat_shaughnessy is that hello ruby by any chance, or can you neither confirm or deny? Heh :)
@daz4126
Ruby for kids sounds like a great idea!
@ag_dubs
@pat_shaughnessy v cool! excited to hear more.
@pat_shaughnessy
@projct no, it's not - don't have the priviledge of reviewing that one :)
@pat_shaughnessy
@ag_dubs for sure, I'll definitely talk about it more when it's closer to being done
@j3
@pat_shaughnessy @ag_dubs +1, been wanting to write one for years, curious to see it.
@ag_dubs
@j3 @pat_shaughnessy i think it'd be real cool to get some folks together to talk about different approaches to teaching kids programming
@ag_dubs
@j3 @pat_shaughnessy esp language based vs language agnostic approaches
@j3
@ag_dubs @pat_shaughnessy count me in. We could host in Denver.
@ag_dubs
@j3 @pat_shaughnessy how about something fancy like Berlin? i think Berlin would be nice. Berlin or…. Brooklyn ;)
@pat_shaughnessy
@ag_dubs @j3 count me in too - would love to be involved - Brooklyn's a lot closer to me :)
@j3
@pat_shaughnessy @ag_dubs I need denver so I can kidnap you all to teach at @turingschool.
@ag_dubs
@pat_shaughnessy @j3 kidcodeconf 2014, brooklyn, nyc
@ag_dubs
@j3 @pat_shaughnessy @turingschool the kidnapping is supposed to be a surprise, jeff, you kinda blew it ;)
@j3
@ag_dubs @pat_shaughnessy I’m losing my criminal edge.
@ag_dubs
@j3 @pat_shaughnessy all i can think of now is a mashup between MJ's "smooth criminal" and LCD's "i'm losing my edge"
@pat_shaughnessy
@j3 @ag_dubs hardly :) - to be serious though, I think a ton of people would be interesting in a conf or meeting about programming & kids
@ag_dubs
@pat_shaughnessy @j3 completely agree. let's move this to an email chain and maybe do something about it.
@j3
@ag_dubs @pat_shaughnessy maybe two days, first day about kids and second about adults.
@ag_dubs
@j3 @pat_shaughnessy "one thing well"
@j3
@ag_dubs @pat_shaughnessy this is not how I roll
@pat_shaughnessy
@j3 @ag_dubs i like the email discussion idea, as a first step - lots of other folks will have opinions & want to be involved
@ag_dubs
@pat_shaughnessy @j3 +1. i'm ashley at bocoup dot com
@pat_shaughnessy
@ag_dubs @j3 cool - I'll tweet something out tomorrow when more people are paying attention, and see who wants to talk about it
@ag_dubs
@pat_shaughnessy @j3 cool… offhand i think @aidanfeldman @vicfriedman @hyper_linda @evhan55
@stevekinney
@pat_shaughnessy @j3 @ag_dubs Count me in! I taught Ruby & JS in NYC high schools for 3 years. hello at (twitter username) dot net.
@ag_dubs
@stevekinney @pat_shaughnessy @j3 oh ya! how could i forget. bad me
@kytrinyx
@ag_dubs @j3 @pat_shaughnessy I would definitely suggest that you rope in @edwardog and @lynnlangit if you do this.
@aidanfeldman
@ag_dubs @pat_shaughnessy @j3 @VicFriedman @hyper_linda @evhan55 ha, funny timing... just helped launch this today: http://www.meetup.com/init-developer/
@JEG2
@ag_dubs @j3 @pat_shaughnessy Lots of good info here: http://rubyrogues.com/141-rr-teaching-kids-with-ron-evans/ …
@JEG2
@kytrinyx @ag_dubs @j3 @pat_shaughnessy @edwardog @lynnlangit And @deadprogram.
@mrb_bk
@pat_shaughnessy @ag_dubs @j3 I have some thoughts on this too, hit me up
@VicFriedman
@ag_dubs @pat_shaughnessy @j3 @aidanfeldman @hyper_linda @evhan55 very interested in this!!
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