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Parent Driven Development
Episode 065: Teaching Programming to Kids with Felienne
Welcome, Felienne!
Felienne (https://twitter.com/Felienne) is the creator of the Hedy programming language, and was one of the founders of the Joy of Coding conference. Since 2016, she has been a host at SE radio, one of the most popular software engineering podcasts on the web. Felienne is the author of “The Programmer’s Brain (https://www.felienne.com/book)” a book that helps programmers understand how their brains work and how to use it more effectively. In 2021, Felienne was awarded the Dutch Prize for ICT research.
0:50 How does Felienne become interested in programming education?
Research field towards programming education
Love of kids
3:33 Methods and strategies to help kids understand
Relevant for professionals
Full concentration disables full memory, so she lowers the cognitive load
After time, memory starts to build and functioning increases
6:02 Maximizing different learning styles in kids
Learn their preferences
Challenges their default learning style
9:57 Felienne’s new book
How people learn programming
The more information you know about your brain can help you understand how you learn
11:40 Interesting findings
Cognitive load
14:00 Top tips related to programming
Refactoring for personal comprehension
Let go of one golden standard that code is suppose to look like
17:29 Specific differences between professionals and kids
Motivation
Concrete vs open ended expression
20:50 - 1 take away
Take the kids hands, and guide them
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Allison and her husband score a few days each solo as they transition back into their home #genius
Felienne’s students fuss over the different symbols of division in coding #fail
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Allison (https://twitter.com/allie_p)
Special Guest: Felienne Hermans.
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