This is so awesome. A handful of other Stanford students and I entered a Node+AR Drone hackathon in SF[1] a while back and we had a blast. We had so much fun,

This is so awesome. A handful of other Stanford students and I entered a Node+AR Drone hackathon in SF[1] a while back and we had a blast. We had so much fun, in fact, that we integrated AR Drone hacking into the Robotics Club. This started as a few friends messing with 2 drones and its grown to the point where I'm actually teaching NodeJS, Javascript+Coffeescript, a bit of Unix, and various algorithms to 35+ students fresh out of Stanford's Intro to Computer Science course! (Its still mostly the basics, but I've been writing up & posting lesson info here http://drones.johnback.us/ http://drones.johnback.us/). I'm very excited with what the various AR Drone communities have created so far. The popular Node library[2], a Go implementation (in progress) by the same author[3], and this Clojure option[4] are all amazing avenues for teaching interesting CS languages (that remain largely ignored in formal academics) to students new to CS. [1] http://dronegames.co/ http://dronegames.co/ [2] https://github.com/felixge/node-ar-drone https://github.com/felixge/node-ar-drone [3] https://github.com/felixge/ardrone https://github.com/felixge/ardrone [4] https://github.com/gigasquid/clj-drone https://github.com/gigasquid/clj-drone