[LRUG] Talk proposal: teaching programming to children

[Pablo Brasero Moreno]

Well, thanks for the responses. Looks like it will be happening, but it
will be after December.

Just to clarify, my experience is teaching to a group of about 15 students
in after school lessons. Ages were varied, from 13 to 17. There will surely
be some differences with how some of you have done it with your own
children, but I'll be looking forward to discussing those with you too! :-)

Cheers,

On 27 November 2012 10:37, Richard Conroy <richard.conroy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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