Why I love programming (and why I teach it)

A talk given at UT Dallas to K-12 teachers, parents, and students about how I got into programming, what I love about it, and what I do at Khan Academy.

Transcript

1. WHY I LOVE PROGRAMMING ! (…AND TEACHING IT!) by pamela fox
2. HOW’D I GET INTO IT?
3. WE WERE SURROUNDED.
4. WINDOWS DOS, FTW
5. AND THUS IT BEGINS...
6. HOW I SPENT MY NEW YEARS VACATION
7. THE POWER OF THE WEB
8. DIGITIZE ALL THE THINGS!
9. SCHOOL PROJECTS
10. CYBERCLUB
11. WHY I LOVE PROGRAMMING #1 It’s creative
12. COLLEGE PICKING TIME! 11TH GRADE.
13. A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS... - Event Planning (+ Computers) - Graphic Design (+ Computers) - Language learning (+ Computers) - Newspaper layout (+ Computers) - Computer Programming - Website Development ! COMPUTERS,
    COMPUTERS,
    COMPUTERS.
    
14. WHERE? 3D Animation Linguistics Computer Science
15. COMPUTER SCIENCE + LINGUISTICS
16. COMPUTER SCIENCE + ANIMATION
17. COMPUTER SCIENCE + GAMES
18. SIDE PROJECTS!
19. WHY I LOVE PROGRAMMING #2 It’s interdisciplinary
20. IT’S JOB FINDING TIME!
    SUMMER AFTER SENIOR YEAR.
21. “DEVELOPER ADVOCATE” THE YEARS
22. THE YEARS
23. 20% TIME THE YEARS
24. THE YEARS Japan Australia Singapore France Brazil Philippines
25. WHY I LOVE PROGRAMMING #3 It’s fun to teach
26. THE HACKING YEAR
27. THE YEAR
28. THE YEARS
29. OUR TEAM
30. http://life.khanacademy.org/ WE EAT…
31. WE BOND… http://life.khanacademy.org/
32. WE CELEBRATE! http://life.khanacademy.org/
33. WHY I LOVE PROGRAMMING #4 It’s collaborative
34. WHY I LOVE PROGRAMMING Collaborative Creative Fun to teach Interdisciplinary
35. Teaching Programming
    
36. What we teach Languages Uses Java Python C++ JavaScript Ruby Games Animation Hardware Robotics Data Science Simulation Mobile Websites Lua No Installation Needed Shareable Fun for Anyone Gateway Drug HTML SQLnew! new!
37. ACE editor JSHint ! BabyHint ! Loop Checker ProcessingJS How students program (JS)
38. ACE editor Slowparse ! Loop Checker HTML How students program (HTML)
39. ACE editor SQLlint SQL How students program (SQL)
40. Curriculum
41. What we cover
42. How we teach: “Talk-throughs” Uses same environment they program in Making passive instruction interactive! https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/programming/drawing-basics/p/intro-to-drawing
43. How we assess learning: challenges staticTest StructuredJS Esprima
44. Giving more opportunity for practice: Projects
45. Community & Cult(ure)
46. The Characters Hopper (...is a HER!) Winston Oh Noes Guy, the Error Buddy
47. ...The Avatars!
48. Questions, Help Requests, Evals
49. Votes and Spin-offs!
50. The Hot Programs
51. Contests & Collaborations http://cs-blog.khanacademy.org/2015/01/holiday-contests-lights-trees-snow.html Tree decorating Snow game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Z42yiLtDo
52. WHAT I WANT STUDENTS TO LOVE ABOUT PROGRAMMING… Collaborative Creative Fun to teach Interdisciplinary