Playgrounds Are Now for Kids — Daniel Steinberg

Since their release, Playgrounds have provided a safe place for experienced developers to experiment with syntax, algorithms, and techniques in Swift. The new and improved Playgrounds take us to a whole new level. They are the perfect environment for sparking interest in programming and for teaching programming to those who have never tried before. In this session I'll demonstrate some first steps in this direction and encourage discussion on where we can and should go next.

This talk was presented at AltConf in June 2015.

Transcript

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10. 10 PRINT "Hello"
11. 10 PRINT "Hello"
12. 10 PRINT "Hello" 20 GOTO 10
13. 10 PRINT "Hello" 20 GOTO 10
14. 10 PRINT CHR$(7)
15. 10 PRINT CHR$(7) 20 GOTO 10
16. 10 PRINT CHR$(7) 20 GOTO 10
17. 10 PRINT CHR$(7) 20 GOTO 10 GOTO considered Dangerous
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45. What are we teaching
46. What are our goals
47. Use Swift and Xcode
48. Teach kids to really program
49. Teach kids to love to program
50. Fun Down Approach
51. Pedagogical Issues
52. Theory vs Reality
53. x * y = y * x
54. 1 * 6 = 6 * 1
55. 1 * 6 ≠ 6 * 1
56. 6 * ½ = ½ * 6
57. 6 * ½ ≠ ½ * 6
58. Motivation
61. New Playgrounds