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CODE!

Kevin Lawver
December 11, 2013

 CODE!

A short presentation I threw together to give to the 4th graders at May Howard Elementary before I introduce them to Hackety Hack.

Kevin Lawver

December 11, 2013
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  1. CODE!

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  2. What’s Code?

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  3. It’s words that tell a
    computer what to do.

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  4. But, humans can read
    it too!

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  5. Code looks something
    like this:

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  6. class Dog
    attr_accessor :color, :size
    def bark
    “woof!”
    end
    end

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  7. I’ll show you how that
    works later… remind me.

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  8. What’s it like coding
    all the time?

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  9. FUN!

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  10. What’s The Web?

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  11. Billions of computers
    listening for requests.

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  12. And responding
    with… responses!

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  13. How it works

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  14. How It Works
    • Your computer makes a request to an address -
    http://amazon.com
    • A thing called a DNS server says “Hey, that’s this
    computer” and your computer sends that computer
    a request.
    • That computer gets the request and answers it.
    • Just like a game of telephone.

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  15. And it all works
    because of…

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  16. CODE!

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  17. Are you ready to write
    some?!

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  18. ME TOO!

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