[LRUG] Talk proposal: teaching programming to children

[Susana Ruiz]

I'm interested too.
On Nov 26, 2012 5:11 PM, "Pablo Brasero Moreno" <pablobm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there, Would somebody be interested in a talk about teaching
> programming to children?
>
> Around April this year, I volunteered (or rather my company, New Bamboo,
> volunteered my time) to help out at a "Coding club" pilot. The idea was to
> see how programming could be made into an after school activity for
> children in the UK.
>
> For some time, I have had an interest in teaching. This Coding Club
> allowed me to actually dabble a bit in the field, and I learned a few
> things that others may be interested in. If you have similar interests
> (maybe for your own little ones?), or simply are interested on how
> programming may look to complete newcomers, you may like this.
>
> To make it even less Ruby-related, this actually was done in Python :P I
> could actually convert it to Ruby, but I'm not sure whether it would
> actually make sense (for reasons I can also explain).
>
> --
> Pablo Brasero
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> http://pablobm.com
>
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