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Why I Teach Kids to Code
- teach 14y agoGood on you! The world needs more hard-working and passionate teachers. FYI the University of Texas at Austin has a similar camp: First Bytes[1], which is free to attend if you get accepted. [1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/outreach/first-bytes http://www.cs.utexas.edu/outreach/first-bytes
- jenius 14y agoGood post rebecca and nice job getting to the top page for hacker news!
- brey 14y ago> where the teen pregnancy rate is around 95.46% (per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19)[1] small point, but this is inconsistent - I suspect you mean 9.546%. a 95% teen pregnancy rate would be somewhat surprising ...
- geekgirlweb 14y agoHere's the government data I referenced, I am using my specific hometown neighborhood zipcode "11717", it's 94.5% between 2006-2008. http://www.health.ny.gov/funding/rfa/inactive/1007301230/attach1a.pdf http://www.health.ny.gov/funding/rfa/inactive/1007301230/att...
- brey 14y agoI believe the data, but the numbers given on that data sheet aren't percentages :-) > Pregnancy rates are the number of pregnancies per 1,000 females age 15 to 19 years 95.46 pregnancies / 1000 females = 9.546% (actually, you can't infer an exact percentage of girls who became pregnant from this statistic, as one female can have multiple pregnancies within a year, but you get what I mean)
- Nogwater 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mil not "percent"
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- jgamman 14y agocut some slack - maybe she's busy you know, helping 30-odd underpriveledged kids expand their horizons. when the heck did this community start only focussing on the nitpicking? as the OP said 'small point'...
- citricsquid 14y agoNitpicking* when it comes to facts and figures is important and should be expected. It's very very easy for someone to cite an inaccurate fact and for that new "fact" to become accepted and cited elsewhere, lots of people will blindly cite things they've seen elsewhere. It's also the case that a specific fact can change how someone views the topic at hand. Although in this case 96% is obviously an error, it's still an error that should be fixed. The person you replied to has deleted their comment so I guess maybe they were being an abusive asshole about it, which is certainly not needed. * Nitpicking implies the things aren't important so I guess that's the wrong word, but I tried to be consistent with your comment.
- carlsednaoui 14y agosweet article, thanks for the mention ;)
- comex 14y ago404ed. Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://geekgirlweb.com/2012/09/04/why-i-teach-kids-to-code/&hl=en&prmd=imvns&strip=1 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
- fpgeek 14y agoI'm getting a 404 on the article link, but this works: http://geekgirlweb.com/?p=9 http://geekgirlweb.com/?p=9
- geekgirlweb 14y agoApologies, I switched servers last minute, so now we're back in business!
- sparkygoblue 14y agoI've been teaching kids to code for over 10 years now. It's an exciting time to be a computer programming teacher. The amount of resources (mostly free) that make teaching young people computer programming easier and far more enjoyable have grown exponentially since I started teaching. The last two to three years in particular have seen an explosion of online education sites and materials.