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Generation Minecraft - Kids Building Software
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Summary
Seth Schroeder discusses how adults can motivate kids to create stuff on a computer rather than just consuming it, and shares the approach that has worked in his family.
Bio
Seth Schroeder is fascinated by computers. As a kid, he felt extra cool when his D&D character generator was "improved" to consistently give him above average stats. As a teen, he used his HP48g calculator to plot the Mandlebrot set to the detriment of his grades. As a young adult, he cut his teeth on the little white C book from Kerninghan&Ritchie. Now he worries more about people.
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 09, 2014