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How (not) to go about teaching programming to children
I have been thinking about teaching my children programming. They are 10 and 9 now and have shown some interest in other coding related activities like code.org and Scratch. This may be more wishful thinking on my part. I would really love for them t...
Today was the first lesson. We did not even touch the computer today. With a white board I explained the basic parts of a computer, with special emphasis on storage. What is memory? What types of memory are there? What is an SSD? What is RAM? What do...
First time with a computer. This is getting serious! Elisa is using a MacBook Pro and Leandro is using a Lenovo T440 with Fedora. Both are on the terminal, ready to learn and with a weird look on their faces that says "what the heck is this boring sc...
For this session I will go a bit deeper on data types. We are mixing numbers and strings and seeing the result. I decided to stay with Node for the time being. We'll see how this goes. We also jump to a text editor. I decided to go with nano so that ...
First class for Jazmin, 7 and Natan, 6. We went over the very basics of math using Node. How to add and substract numbers mainly. They were excited to see that the computer is able to process 123791237+1238933 just as fast as 3+2. The result didn't m...
