The slides from my session "So You Think You Want to Write Code?" at Dev Fest Fam 2014 for kids age 8 and up. The videos played were: http://code.org/ and http://vimeo.com/65583694 http://devfestfam.com/#sessions The resources handed out included: Online Resources Code.org – code.org Codecademy - codecademy.com Pluralsight: Free Courses for Kids - http://www.pluralsight.com/training/Kids Kids Ruby - kidsruby.com Languages/Platforms Scratch – scratch.mit.edu Hopscotch – gethopscotch.com Alice - alice.org Other BOOK: Snake Wrangling for Kids - http://briggs.net.nz/snake-wrangling-for-kids.html GAME: Hakitzu Elite: Robot Hackers – Google Play and iTunes MORE RESOURCES: http://happynerds.net/
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1. DO YOU STILL THINK YOU WANT TO WRITE CODE? Dev Fest Family
Edition May 2014 William Munn - @dubmun [email protected]
2. WHY? 3. WHAT DOES FOOTBALL HAVE TO DO WITH CODE? 4. PEOPLE
LIKE TO WRITE CODE Find a job you love and you'll never work a day
in your life. -Confucius 5. CODING IS CREATIVE 6. CODING IS
CHALLENGING 7. CODING IS FUN! 8. VIDEO CODE.ORG 9. WHAT? 10.
EVERYTHING RUNS ON CODE 11. NOT ONLY PHONES, TABLETS, &
COMPUTERS 12. VIDEO GAMES 13. BUSINESSES/INTERNET/WEBSITES 14.
SELF-DRIVING CARS 15. ROBOTS 16. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 17.
WHAT CAN WE DO TODAY (RIGHT NOW) WITH CODE? 18. HOW? 19. HOW DO YOU
GET STARTED? Videos Books Online Tutorials Teaching Languages/Tools
20. VIDEO - SCRATCH 21. SO YOU THINK YOU WANT TO WRITE CODE? Dev
Fest Family Edition May 2014 William Munn - @dubmun
[email protected]
