[LRUG] Talk proposal: teaching programming to children

[Ben Woodward]

Hey folks,

I'm interested in this. I've been trying to teach my young cousin Ruby, following the formula outlined in this talk - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNbBC2pSiVw by Steven Ragnarök. (Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/nuclearsandwich/sugar-free-ruby)

The idea is to teach objects first, before teaching 'tricks'. The thinking is that by giving learners the correct context right of the bat, then you prevent them from reaching a brick wall further down the path.

Ben

On 26 Nov 2012, at 18:32, Oto Brglez <otobrglez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> Perhaps you can find some resources on Rails Girls: http://railsgirls.com
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> Oto Brglez
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> On Monday, November 26, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Najaf Ali wrote:
> 
>> Hey Pablo,
>> 
>> Would really like to see this talk. I plan on volunteering for Code Club from next year on so I'd love to hear your thoughts.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> -Ali
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Ed James (Alt) <ed.james.spam at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Yes, I would be very interested, given I've just started teaching Ruby to my 7 year old son. 
>>> I'm using KidsRuby and so far it's been both difficult and fun.
>>> 
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>>> Ed James
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>>> On Monday, 26 November 2012 at 17:10, Pablo Brasero Moreno 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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