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TIL there's a kids workshop! As from what age do you think it's interesting for them ?
by stef25 3y ago
TIL there's a kids workshop! As from what age do you think it's interesting for them ?
- radicalbyte 3y agoWe spent the weekend here basically: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/room/j1106/ https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/room/j1106/ * Microblocks: https://microblocks.fun/ https://microblocks.fun/ * MIT App Inventor: https://appinventor.mit.edu/ https://appinventor.mit.edu/ * Hedy: https://www.hedycode.com/ https://www.hedycode.com/ Hedy in particular was extremely good: it teaches kids to code in text in Python, building up from what looks like natural text into real code. The session was given by a primary school teacher (who was Dutch, which helped as my lad is Dutch/British and that's his first language). She had excellent results with dyslexic kids, it turns out the black/white nature of code combined with the detail really helps them. Materially improves spelling. Age? My son is 10 but there were younger kids there. My daughter is 7 and my son taught her how to use Scratch when he got home. So she's old enough. Although she is bright (skipped a year at school and the work she is doing is two years ahead of that).