[LRUG] Talk proposal: teaching programming to children

[Richard Conroy]

This is something I am keen on too.

I have tried teaching adult novices programming as well. I have a funny
feeling that similar techniques apply.

What I have found is sustaining motivation is key to learning, especially
for novices, and rapid, relevant feedback is what is key. I would love to
learn from others lessons in this regard.


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Susana Ruiz <susana.r.cunado at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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).
>>
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>> Pablo Brasero
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>> http://pablobm.com
>>
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