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How to Teach Your Kid to Code with Hopscotch
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Summary
Samantha John explains the design considerations for creating a visual language for children and demoes Hopscotch, presenting techniques and sample projects for teaching kids to code.
Bio
Samantha John figured out she loved programming just in time to learn Ruby on Rails and skip out on med school. She's passionate about creating tools to teach people to program, especially those who don't fit most people's profile of the 'typical' engineer. She started Hopscotch to bring the joy of programming to young people everywhere.
About the conference
Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web.
Apr 01, 2014