024: Teaching Kids to Code from Parent Driven Development

Parent Driven Development

024: Teaching Kids to Code

31 minutes Posted Feb 27, 2019 at 10:00 am.

Winding up in a developer evangelist role and teaching coding

Teaching younger vs older audiences

Getting kids motivated in the coding space

The benefits for kids who know coding literacy

Kevin's background in coding

Using Twilio (and real-world technology and tools) in teaching kids to code

Resources & Tools

Is Minecraft useful?

Next level resources

Helping passionate kids along the way (without scaring them away)

Genius / Fail Moments

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Parent Driven Development

Episode 024: Teaching Kids to Code

Scratch

The Hour of Code

Glitch

CodeCombat

15:24 Is Minecraft useful?

Codecademy

Learn Python the Hard Way

TwilioQuest

Events, Hackathons, and Conferences

THAT Conference

Josh: Putting a bandaid (glass screen protector) over his daughter's broken iPad screen. (#Genius)

Chris: Letting his daughter make pasta! (#Genius)

Kevin: Letting his daughter make pancakes! (#Genius)

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Panel

Chris Sexton

Josh PuetzSpecial Guest: Kevin Whinnery.