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Easy as Pie? - Teaching Code Literacy

Presented by Sarah Allen on Oct 28, 2011 Length 00:47:28     Download: MP3
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Sections
Architecture & Design
Topics
Ruby on Rails ,
Ruby ,
Dynamic Languages ,
Domain Specific Languages ,
Strange Loop 2011 ,
Languages ,
Methodologies ,
Strange Loop ,
Architecture ,
Language ,
Programming ,
Conferences ,
Language Design
 

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Summary
Sarah Allen talks on how to introduce children to the basics of programming, presenting a new related language called “Pie” along with lessons learned from creating a DSL in Ruby.

Bio
Sarah Allen leads Blazing Cloud, a San Francisco consulting firm. She is also co-founder of Mightyverse, a mobile startup focused on helping people communicate across languages and cultures, and she is President of RailsBridge. Sarah Allen worked on After Effects, Shockwave, Flash video, and OpenLaszlo. Sarah was named one of the top 25 women of the web by San Francisco Women of the Web in 1998.

About the conference
Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web.
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    by Alex Miller

    One of my favorite quotes: "Teaching a class in Word is like teaching a class in pencil" ~40min mark.

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    by William Pollock

    Liked that too, and the insight/realization that kids today mainly use computing devices (phones, tablets) that are essentially closed platforms, that offer them no means to program by themselves.