Linda Liukas' Programming book for Children has Huge First Day on Kickstarter
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Re: Linda Liukas' Programming book for Children has Huge First Day on Kickstarter
#2She's certainly very good at marketing, but based on the video and Kickstarter page I wonder how educational the book will actually be. A couple of sample pages would be helpful.
Re: Linda Liukas' Programming book for Children has Huge First Day on Kickstarter
#3I think it could be a great way of repackaging programming education in order to reach out to a different demographic, and we'll have to try out to see, so I wish this project all the best. Having said that:
> The book will be hardcover, 8x8 inches and 32 pages. The activity book is 16 pages and paperback.
I don't see how you could cover even just the basics mentioned on the Kickstarter page in so few pages without going too fast (remember this is a picture book). Maybe turning it into a series with different adventures (topics) makes more sense?
Re: Linda Liukas' Programming book for Children has Huge First Day on Kickstarter
#4Quality of execution is a big uncertainty but this is a wonderful idea.
Re: Linda Liukas' Programming book for Children has Huge First Day on Kickstarter
#5If not truly educational, it's at least great to get kids curious about programming, or more important: the mindset.
Re: Linda Liukas' Programming book for Children has Huge First Day on Kickstarter
#6Such an important project. Resources like this could go a long way towards solving some of the diversity problems we have in tech.
Re: Linda Liukas' Programming book for Children has Huge First Day on Kickstarter
#7Link to the actual project page on kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lindaliukas/hello-ruby
Her illustrations are really great.
Re: Linda Liukas' Programming book for Children has Huge First Day on Kickstarter
#8I think it could be a great way of repackaging programming education in order to reach out to a different demographic, and we'll have to try out to see, so I wish this project all the best. Having said that: > The book will be hardcover, 8x8 inches and 32 pages. The activity book is 16 pages and paperback. I don't see how you could cover even just the basics mentioned on the Kickstarter page in so few pages without g…
The kickstarter page states that this will be the first adventure and includes a work book with exercises.
Re: Linda Liukas' Programming book for Children has Huge First Day on Kickstarter
#9I think it could be a great way of repackaging programming education in order to reach out to a different demographic, and we'll have to try out to see, so I wish this project all the best. Having said that: > The book will be hardcover, 8x8 inches and 32 pages. The activity book is 16 pages and paperback. I don't see how you could cover even just the basics mentioned on the Kickstarter page in so few pages without g…
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the books aim to teach kids to approach problems using programming logic, like loops and if else statements, rather than actually getting them up and running on Ruby.
But this is just what I remembered from reading her Kickstarter!
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