<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> Hi Steve and all...<div>I liked that too. Did you notice the last part of the header in that page of code: "Hahahahahahah"!</div><div>Caryl<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 15:51:07 -0500<br>Subject: Re: [IAEP] (no subject)<br>From: sthomas1@gosargon.com<br>To: cbigenho@hotmail.com<br>CC: support-gang@laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; olpc-socal@lists.laptop.org; localfiteam@geekid.org<br><br>Great talk. My favorite part was where he showed some Java code and said:<div><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> <a href="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" class="ecxtranscriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">Now, for some of you, when you hear about this,</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="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" class="ecxtranscriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">it might seem sort of strange about everybody learning to code.</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="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" class="ecxtranscriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">When many people think of coding, they think of it</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="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" class="ecxtranscriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">as something that only a very narrow sub-community</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="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" class="ecxtranscriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">of people are going to be doing,</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="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" class="ecxtranscriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">and they think of coding looking like this.</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="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" class="ecxtranscriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">And in fact, if this is what coding is like,</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="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" class="ecxtranscriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">it will only be a narrow sub-community of people</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="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" class="ecxtranscriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">with special mathematical skills and technological background</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="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" class="ecxtranscriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">that can code.</a></blockquote> <div> </div><div>We really need new ways to think about programming. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Stephen</div><div>P.S. Here's one nice clip from Dan Ingall's talk at JSConf 2012: <a href="http://youtu.be/QTJRwKOFddc?t=12m" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/QTJRwKOFddc?t=12m</a> for some "new" way to think about programming. I really like the use of connecting objects via drag and drop and connectors.</div> <div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Caryl Bigenho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div><div dir="ltr"> <span style="line-height:17px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif">A neat TED talk by Mitch Resnick about why (and how) kids need to learn to code. </span><a href="http://bit.ly/TreN5K" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="line-height:17px;text-align:left;color:rgb(59,89,152);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TreN5K</a><span style="line-height:17px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif"> Be sure to watch to the end. You're never too old to learn to code!</span><span class="ecxHOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div> <span style="line-height:17px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:17px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif">Caryl</span></div> </font></span></div></div> <br>_______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div> </div></body> </html>