Online Meeting
Join us at 7 PM EDT at https://udayton.zoom.us/j/798060256
Topic: Programming for kids: Scratch and blocks
How can you corrupt the youth in your life to our dissolute programming lifestyle? Try a block-based programming environment, like Scratch. The drag- and-drop interface is far less intimidating than a page of text, yet it incorporates all the same principles of programming, creating an easy on-ramp toward amateur or even professional programming.
We’ll mostly cover Scratch, the best-known block programming system based on Scheme, but also touch on systems based on JavaScript, Python, etc. You’ll leave prepared to indoctrinate your kids, niece/phews, godchildren, neighbors’ kids, girl scouts selling cookies, etc.
Hour of Code
- pep talk videos
- branded content
- very scripted pathways
Scratch
- eeeenormous library of examples
- community sharing
EduBlocks
- transition to Python