Nick,<div><br></div><div>Excellent link. Thanks for sharing it.</div><div><br></div><div>Manu<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Nicholas Doiron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ndoiron@andrew.cmu.edu">ndoiron@andrew.cmu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">This link was circulating over the weekend: how do you explain computer<br>
programming to a 15 year old in 30 minutes or less?<br>
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<a href="http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/84866/30-minutes-to-explain-programming-to-a-15-year-old" target="_blank">http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/84866/30-minutes-to-explain-programming-to-a-15-year-old</a><br>

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What I like most about these answers is that they should work even when<br>
time is short and kids already use computers at home. There are some quick<br>
exercises and thought experiments to help understand code in a way that<br>
everyday computer use shields us from.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Nick Doiron<br>
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