Parent Driven Development

024: Teaching Kids to Code

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Episode 024: Teaching Kids to Code
01:29 Winding up in a developer evangelist role and teaching coding
02:58 Teaching younger vs older audiences
03:52 Getting kids motivated in the coding space
  • Scratch
    • 05:13 The benefits for kids who know coding literacy
    • The Hour of Code
      • 08:16 Kevin's background in coding
      08:45 Using Twilio (and real-world technology and tools) in teaching kids to code
      13:31 Resources & Tools
      • Glitch
      • CodeCombat
        • 15:24 Is Minecraft useful?
        18:11 Next level resources
        • Codecademy
        • Learn Python the Hard Way
        • TwilioQuest
          • 19:46 Helping passionate kids along the way (without scaring them away)
          • Events, Hackathons, and Conferences
            • THAT Conference
              • 31:05 Genius / Fail Moments
              • Josh: Putting a bandaid (glass screen protector) over his daughter's broken iPad screen. (#Genius)
              • Chris: Letting his daughter make pasta! (#Genius)
              • Kevin: Letting his daughter make pancakes! (#Genius)
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                Chris Sexton

                Josh Puetz

                Special Guest: Kevin Whinnery.

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