2. Age 16 -- Introduced
to programming via
TKP
Age 17-20 -- Taught
TKP events
Age 19 -- Decided to
major in CompSci
(and Bio) at McGill
Age 21 -- Internship
at MSR
Age 23 -- At Pivotal
Labs as a Software
Engineer
@LynnLangit
TKP Resources
For kids ages 6-12
MSFT Kodu - requires EITHER Windows or Xbox
Editor —download Windows version — https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10056
Suggested Kodu class
http://www.slideshare.net/lynnlangit/kodu-class
For kids ages 10-16
TKP Java
Lesson Plans - first lesson at TKP (first lesson)
http://teachingkidsprogramming.org/courses/intro-to-classes-methods-and-for-loops/
Source Code & Editor
Eclipse - follow instructions to on (code) lesson download
https://github.com/TeachingKidsProgramming/TeachingKidsProgramming.Java/blob/master/README.md
TKP C#
Lesson Plan Information -- FREE from Pluralsight
https://www.pluralsight.com/kids-courses
https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/teaching-kids-programming
Source Code on Codeplex
https://extendsmallbasic.codeplex.com/
IMPORTANT: This was written (in C#) for Microsoft SmallBasic, you may have to re-build it (and update some references) for this to build on the current version of C#, we recorded this in 2013.
Editor
Use Visual Studio - but test it! We used VS2102 when we last taught the C# version.
Exorcism.io -- http://exercism.io/