TEACHING JAVA: INSPIRING YOUNG MINDS TO THINK ABOUT CODE Vic Wintriss – Founder June Clarke – Lead Teacher Wintriss Technical

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Tortoise [Pentagon Crazy demo] teachingkidsprogramming.org

Recipies Intentional coding Learning is self-driven Teacher as guide, traffic cones Motivation, things kids enjoy Personalization Template stuff they don’t understand yet [Scary Maze demo]

Group Dynamics Competition/Peer pressure

Perfection game [plates] Easy button Find the error instant death Prizes

Democracy Voting from Agile retrospectives

Group coding Pair programming Randori/Mob Programming

Kids as teachers Mentoring Presentations

Unit Tests [Duck demo]

Puzzles Kid-friendly Katas Practice makes perfect e.g. for loop puzzle http://bit.ly/W8XiUS

~ while loop puzzles ~

1. you have 1 dollar. if you double your money every year, how long will it take for you to become a millionaire?

2. zebra: using only one variable, print “black”, “white”, “black”, “white”, etc. for infinity.

3. giant pizza: how many times can you halve a pizza that has 1046 slices until you have only 1 slice left?

Fun Technologies Processing [demo] Makey Makey [video]

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Agile Pomodoros Pair/Mob programming Unit testing Immediacy Refactoring Coding standard Coding > Lecturing End user involvement

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