I will never have children but shouldn't you guys that do have some (or will have) teaching your kids how to write prompts so the computer can create such code for them? Isn't that the goal of AI and all that? To automate things further so people don't have to learn to code and so for? To "empower" them to automate things that couldn't be automated before? And maybe eventually even skip python (or any other programming language) as intermediate step and go straight from AI to bytecode.
Show HN: PyKidos, Teach Your Kid Python in the Browser
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Re: Show HN: PyKidos, Teach Your Kid Python in the Browser
#22Looks nice! Will try it with my kids later :) If you’re interested in teaching kids Python, also take a look at Hedy. It’s a gradual language that exposed more programming paradigms with each level. It’s used a lot in classroom settings. Full disclosure: I’ve contributed a couple of commits.
https://www.hedycode.com/ is spearheaded by the wonderful https://github.com/Felienne you might know her from her spreadsheet related research. She gave a wonderful talk at Splash 2023 on Hedy, I'll see if I can find it. *edit, I don't think it was recorded but I found these two which will do Hedy: Creating a Programming Language for EveryoneFelienne Hermans • YOW! 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4eSjA6btE8 "He…
Very nice! I'll have a look. Thank you.
As a French, language is an additional barrier and I implemented some facilities in PyKidos to allow for translations of built-in global variables and functions (color names etc). But the Python keywords are still in English. Happy to see that Hedy supports full localization.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same. Firefox says it's got a bad cert, and employer detects it as a malware site. Wonder why. Certainly it doesn't block all of github.io... why this guy's site?
Maybe it got flagged as a "game".
Ah, in tiny gray font it says the reason is "Newly Seen Domains". :P
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#24It gets stuck (browser tab becomes unresponsive) when i try to run the default program on main screen.
Using chrome
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#25I will never have children but shouldn't you guys that do have some (or will have) teaching your kids how to write prompts so the computer can create such code for them? Isn't that the goal of AI and all that? To automate things further so people don't have to learn to code and so for? To "empower" them to automate things that couldn't be automated before? And maybe eventually even skip python (or any other programmi…
I can tell you as a dad, it frightens me that the future is coming so fast I cant even see 1 year ahead.
I teach my daughter things from small circuits to assembler, c, python, sql but also basic prompt engineering, how next word predictors work, how surveillance works or how privacy is infringed, how do we pay for the "free" apps, or how to make an idea into something real, also things about how to type fast (at the moment she types with 80wpm) and how to not be afraid of computers and how to just play with them.
Of course, it might turn out that I have wasted her time, but we spend time together, and during this time I also teach her how to learn things.
Honestly I am not sure "what" you are teaching is that important, If I knew how to bake, I would teach her the deep mastery of baking with all my heart.
PS: you can check my teaching progress log here https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe it got flagged as a "game".
Ah, in tiny gray font it says the reason is "Newly Seen Domains". :P
The cert is also less than a week from expiring. Which I mean, isn't expired actually but I can see some algo seeing that as a signal of low trustworthiness.
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#27It gets stuck (browser tab becomes unresponsive) when i try to run the default program on main screen. Using chrome
Yes, there was a localization-related bug, sorry about that. Should be fixed now.
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#28I will never have children but shouldn't you guys that do have some (or will have) teaching your kids how to write prompts so the computer can create such code for them? Isn't that the goal of AI and all that? To automate things further so people don't have to learn to code and so for? To "empower" them to automate things that couldn't be automated before? And maybe eventually even skip python (or any other programmi…
It's good to know how to specify what you want to a chef, but also good to know how to make dishes for yourself.
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#29Really cool! Seems like the arrow keys don't work as expected? Or maybe I'm missing something. I was excited to change the apple to pear or strawberry on the Tutorial page, but it didn't seem to work.
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#30'Kiddo' has two d's
True, but this way it seems like an exotic Greek island.