Learning to code
What is coding?
Precision
Misconceptions
Text-based
Terminal
How coding languages work
Compilers
Abstraction
Machine language #
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Outcomes
Indirect benefits
Positive beliefs and attitudes
Empowerment
Transferable mental models
Top-down design
Languages
Refactoring
Abstraction
Reasoning from definitons
Precision
Enjoyment
Growth mindset
Learning is a tool
The computer is a tool for me to build anything I can imagine
I don't need permission to learn or create
I can explain things to myself without a teacher
Learning is fun
Learning is relevant
Creating is fun
Challenges are fun
I can get better at anything with effort
“I can’t” isn’t a part of my vocabulary. “I could if I...” is what I think instead.
I can learn anything I want to.
It’s OK to be wrong. Being wrong is a stepping stone to being right. #
There’s no such thing as being “bad at math” or any subject.
My thoughts are worthwhile
I am full of potential
Symbolic thinking
Debugging
Java
Python
Ruby
Haskell
Scheme
Scratch
JavaScript
ProccessingJS
WoofJS
JQuery
ReactJS
VueJS
NodeJS
Rails
Sinatra
Django
Matlab
HTML
CSS
Mathmatica
Direct benefits
Software job $$$
Ability to "talk tech"
To build a piece of software
To start a tech company
To have the skill
Modeling
Sequential thinking
Functional thinking
Environment
Online Class
Coursera
Free Code Camp
Codecademy
In-person class
High school
AP CS Principles
AP CS
After-school
IMACS
The Coding Space
"On the job"
Internship
Starting a company
Hackathon
Models of cognition
Predicitive Processing
Analogy as core of cognition
Concrete than abstract
Constructivism
“Learning as reconstruction rather than transmission”
Constructionism #
“intellectual structures grow out of one another and… acquire emotional form”
Mathland
Microworld
Learn by doing
Assimilation
“ anything is easy if you can assimilate it into your collection of models”
Teaching methods
Instructionist
Homework
Tests
Lecture
Constructionist
Mixed age/ability classes
Creative Projects
Untutorial
Virtual playground
Project Based
Self-paced
Socratic Method
Motivation
Intrinsic
Extrinsic
Gold star
Manipulative Praise #
Grades
Enjoyment of creation process #
Satisfaction of completing a challenge #
Satisfaction of sharing a project
Criticism
Award
Privledges
Genuine praise
Specific
No qualifications
How it makes the praises feel
Transitional objects
Gears
Scratch blocks
Legos
Describes person
Judges work
Emphasis process over person #
LOGO
Scratch
“more like learning French by living in France than like trying to learn it through the unnatural process of American foreign-language instruction in classrooms”
“ a concept is a package of analogies”
Learning is relating ideas already in your head to each other
Two way predictions
Prediction ➡ variation ➡ surprise ➡ memory
TODO
Pride #
“Attention” is low-leveler neurons
Layers of neurons, higher to lower
How to choose a language
How to choose a projecth
TODO
TODO
TODO
Time spent is key
Pimpsleur v duolingo
Social pressures
Minimizing time stuck
Ease of setup
Habit
Alexander technique
Meditation
Making the unconscious conscious
Different amont of checkpoints in rowing stroke
Gamification
Relating things to each other = compression + pointers #
Generic hardware #