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Let's Code - Coding Awareness for School Kids

Let's Code - Coding Awareness for School Kids

AbdulMajedRaja RS

January 18, 2019
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  1. Quiz #1 – Clue #1: This kid, When he was

    in the eighth grade, took an interest in programming and He wrote his first computer program: an implementation of tic- tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer.
  2. Quiz #1 – Clue #2: When he was 20 years

    old, he took a leave of absence and started a company with his friend and became one of the richest persons in the world.
  3. Quiz #2 – Clue #1: This kid, who learnt writing

    software in middle school, while he was in second year of college, studying Psychology & Computer Science, built a website ‘for fun’.
  4. Quiz #2 – Clue #2: The website he cofounded when

    he was 20 years old, after 10 years, had got 1.39 billion Total Active users and at the age 23 he became the world's youngest self-made billionaire.
  5. Distraction – Attention Span! Students with a Facebook account spend

    less time studying and received a lower grade point average (Sciencedirect, 2015).
  6. Unreasonable Man! “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world:

    the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw
  7. Focus! “People think focus means saying yes to the thing

    you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. ” Steve Jobs
  8. “If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled

    or talented you are.” Deep Work, Cal Newport Produce!
  9. Showcase! Code {Projects} Design {UI, UX, Art, Logo} Write {Blog/Books}

    Publish {Podcast/Videos} Build & Sell {Kits/Products}
  10. Success! “Biologists often talk about the “ecology” of an organism:

    the tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acord; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured. We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds. But do we know enough about the sunlight that warmed them, the soil in which they put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid?” Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell