Your 8-Year-Old Niece Codes Better Than You
We teach programming wrong. We start with int i = 0;. Boring. We should start with Noise.
The Pi Jam Experiment
I put 8-year-olds and 80-year-olds in a room with Sonic Pi. The 8-year-olds didn’t ask “Is this Object Oriented?” They asked “How do I make it sound like a fart?” And then they learned loops, variables, and functions to achieve that noble goal. Play is the only way to learn.
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