Programming in the Small - Teaching my 6 Year Old Ruby

My dad's a programmer, so I grew up with PCs and--more importantly--programming tools my friends didn't have. I learned early on that text I typed could make these machines do anything I could imagine.

Now I have kids of my own, and as my daughter's learning letters and arithmetic, I'm scheming to give her similar experiences. Come along on the journey of introducing her to programming. We'll talk about the software we used, the puzzles and games we made, what worked and what didn't. Along the way we'll pick up tips on teaching programming to novices of any age.

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1. Programming In The Small Teaching My 5 6 Year-Old Ruby Jason Clark @jasonrclark
5. Expectations Mechanics Ideas Demo! Coda
6. Expectations Mechanics Ideas Demo! Coda
9. EXPECTATIONS
10. Theirs
13. Visual
14. On Paper
15. Quick Feedback
17. Yours
18. Patience
19. Attention
20. Recall
21. MECHANICS
23. 23 https://flic.kr/p/69W4Z4
24. 24 https://flic.kr/p/dpiMc2 https://flic.kr/p/42cq6
25. Mistakes
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27. Ask Questions
28. Comparison
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31. Simple
32. 32 Shortcuts
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34. Repetition
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36. 36 "Save then Run"
37. Similarities
39. IDEAS
40. Tools
45. Apps
50. DEMO
51. CODA: Shoes
54. Shoes 4
55. JRuby
57. gem install shoes --pre
58. shoes your_code.rb
60. Expectations Mechanics Ideas Demo! Coda
61. 61 http://jasonrclark.com/ kidscode http://speakerdeck.com/ jasonrclark @jasonrclark http://empirecapes.com