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[Steve Thomas]

Great talk.  My favorite part was where he showed some Java code and said:

> Now, for some of you, when you hear about this,<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#342513>
>  it might seem sort of strange about everybody learning to code.<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#345356>
>  When many people think of coding, they think of it<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#348964>
>  as something that only a very narrow sub-community<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#352114>
>  of people are going to be doing,<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#355690>
>  and they think of coding looking like this.<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#358348>
>  And in fact, if this is what coding is like,<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#361270>
>  it will only be a narrow sub-community of people<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#363436>
>  with special mathematical skills and technological background<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#365931>
>  that can code.<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#369003>


We really need new ways to think about programming.

Cheers,
Stephen
P.S. Here's one nice clip from Dan Ingall's talk at JSConf 2012:
http://youtu.be/QTJRwKOFddc?t=12m for some "new" way to think about
programming.  I really like the use of connecting objects via drag and drop
and connectors.




On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  A neat TED talk by Mitch Resnick about why (and how) kids need to learn
> to code. http://bit.ly/TreN5K Be sure to watch to the end. You're never
> too old to learn to code!
>
> Caryl
>
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