Teaching my children programming I

I am a software engineer from Murcia, Spain currently living in Utah.
I love software development, programming languages, writing, drawing, Star Wars and my family (in no particular order).
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I am a software engineer from Murcia, Spain currently living in Utah.
I love software development, programming languages, writing, drawing, Star Wars and my family (in no particular order).
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One of my favorite games of all time is Master of Orion II. It is a game that I find myself playing throughout the years. The game is very replayable and especially after a few mods fixed some of the issues in gameplay and some bugs, the game is bett...

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...

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 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...

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 does the computer do when you tell it to remember something? How does it retrieve previously stored information?
The session went really well. Better than expected! They were very into it and the 6 year old even sat down to learn as well. I may invite her again to some lessons, but I think she is still too young. She should play with Scratch a little more first.