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by idancali 13y ago
Yeah it'd be interesting for me too to explore this further. Stay in touch via my twitter @idancali and I'll post stuff as soon as I get a chance. Until then, check out this post I wrote recently: http://dancali.io&#x2F
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by idancali 13y ago
Awesome, let me know how that works out :)
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by idancali 13y ago
Cool thread, I just started a thread about teaching my own daughter how to code a few hours ago :) First off, congrats on the intention. I believe code literacy is going to be a key educational principle in the 21st century so good for you
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by idancali 13y ago
yeah I wondered about string myself, I don't see how a child could get "strings". I think they would get "letters" or "words" or even "text". That's why I just didn't get into strings,
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by idancali 13y ago
yeah that's a good point; I really wonder about conditional statements though, I think control flow should be straight forward, but I would think you might need to start off with variables and primitives at least.. what do you think?
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by idancali 13y ago
haha that's awesome, I had no idea about a lot of stuff when learning but that's the amazing thing, you don't need to know everything to get started and start building things, and that's what scares people off, they thin
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by idancali 13y ago
that's look really really interesting! I was actually thinking of looking into tablet apps that teach kids stuff like that in a fun way. Thanks for the link, I'll check it out
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by idancali 13y ago
I think that's a really good point and it's key in adult learning as well. So many times we go through tons of boring theory first until we're drained of our mental energy and by the time we get to the fun part we couldn&#x27
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by idancali 13y ago
right on!
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by idancali 13y ago
It's interesting actually, not that you mention it, this week my daughter read her first 20 page kids book. In English, as her second language. Her first language is Romanian and we speak Romanian at home. I do believe this is a beauti
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by idancali 13y ago
You know a long time ago I used to "code" in this language called LabView and it was all graphical. It was designed for electrical engineers. I remember working with electrical engineers that had no idea about coding and they woul
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by idancali 13y ago
I think you nailed it my friend. That's exactly what was going through my mind as I saw myself trying to teach her what a variable is. My boys were playing with Legos and I was drinking coffee so I'm like alright, let's try t
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by idancali 13y ago
on second thought I think you're right. I think it wasn't so much about the tools as much as it was about the concepts behind what coding is, what a variable is etc.
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by idancali 13y ago
I completely agree with the fact that syntax is irrelevant. What's really key in coding is getting the core concepts down, like variables, control flow, methods, classes, etc. To me, if a kid can understand what a variable is and what
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by idancali 13y ago
I actually thought about what I should start with if I were to teach coding and you're right I would probably start with something that's interpreted first of all. I was thinking Ruby , perhaps Python, you're right. But the c
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by idancali 13y ago
Good stuff and congrats. I'm always amazed to see young kids get into coding and math. I think that's awesome. I was so pleasantly surprised when she got the whole variables thing. I think drawing analogies to real life stuff is a
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by idancali 13y ago
that's great man! I'll try that with my 3 and 5-year old boys to see if they pick it up. I was thinking about the whole "how young can a child learn to code" thing too and I think it's obviously a matter of the envi
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by idancali 13y ago
thanks dude, I do believe that's the first fundamental concept that makes most sense in a 101 course/lesson. If you get that, you can move on, if you don't, then you have no ground to stand on
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by idancali 13y ago
awesome thanks for the tip, I'm gonna check it out
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by idancali 13y ago
I hear you, but if you check the timeline of the lesson, I didn't teach her every step of the code, that would be too much info off the bat. I wrote a bit of boilerplate code and her lesson - as I mentioned in the post - was just those
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by idancali 13y ago
Hey I hear you. When I started coding I was 9 and I did something like that in BASIC. It was awesome. I was actually considering what to start out with and I just went for iOS off the bat to see what happens. I also think kids these days pi
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by idancali 13y ago
Wow that's great. Thanks for the tip. I'm going to check it out.
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My 7-Year Old Daughter’s First Programming Experience(dancali.io)
80 points by idancali 13y ago|61 comments
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A Simple Guide To Adding Translation Capabilities To Your iOS App(dancali.io)
1 points by idancali 13y ago|0 comments