Name: Teaching Kids to Code by a 13 year-old with Michael & Jason Straughan | JSConf EU 2019
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>> Hello, everyone. My name is Michael. I'm a 13-year-old boy and I enjoy all things Pokémon,

Future simple

Lego, Star Wars, and now play video games and VR all day if you'll let me!

>> My name's Jason, his dad, CEO of a company called Codeup in the States, and we teach

adults how to code. I know a little bit about Pokémon, and video games are all right. Before

teaching kids to code and giving you tools to go back home? And teach kids to code. , let's

talk about why teach kids to code? I think most people in the audience have some opinions

about that, but I wanted to find out from a kid. Michael, why do you think kids should

code? >> Kids need a better understanding of technology.

Most kids think technology is Google, YouTube, and Fornite. There's a not close to the possibilities.

Coding makes you creative and makes you want to do amazing stuff, integrate and teach children

logic, like if something happens, do something else. You also learn how things work. You

can learn how to send an mail, or learn how a computer works. It's cool to build Lego

and play games. It's cool and awesome to programme things. It's also really fun. I do on a daily

basis. >> Awesome. So before we get into the right

way to teach kids how to code, we figured we would go over a few of the things we think

are the wrong way to do it, and last summer, Michael was super excited to go to a camp

where they were going to teach Minecraft mods learning Java and we learned a few things

that are the things to avoid when trying to teach a code.

>> First thing to start with is a hard language, Java or C. During that camp, I used Java,

and it was not fun. I don't know how it works to date. All I know is like C - I don't know.

Make them learn to type. I still use my four fingers, and using complicated tools like

Eclipse. I have no idea how to go back to my previous projects. I have no idea how that

even works. Vocabulary, like conkat ... >> Concatenation?

>> I don't even know what that means. And they need you to learn maths first - a terrible

way to start. >> If you want to teach a kid a musical instrument,

you would probably teach him a strong before you made them learn music theory or read music.

I found as parent once Michael was out creating video games, all of the things in the slide

he became more interested in. If this is where we start, then it's really heart to get them

excited about writing code. That being side, we want to know what kids want to do?

>> This picture definitely shows what I want to do all day, every day.

>> All day long if I let him. Michael, what do you think the kids want to do when they

are learning to codes? >> They want to see results. They don't want

to wait ten seconds - >> You're telling me kids aren't patient?

>> I've been waiting for you to say that. And they like to create things that are fun,

like game or Lego. They like to create things that they are interested in. And sharing that

creation, again back to logo, they love to show it after they build the set, even I do,

I like to show it to my parents showing what I'm capable of. To make new graphics, like

doing artwork, or fan art, or anything like that, they love to do that, and building things

that they love once again, Legos. They love them, but last but not least, they like to

play with the results. Guess what? Lego. They love to play with Lego before they put it

on the shelf before letting it dust and rot. >> Awesome. So, we've talked a little bit

about the wrong way and why kids want to do it, and what kids are into, so we would like

to present what we think is a great solution for teaching kids to code, and, in this solution

that we want to show you, do you have to learn how to type?

>> No, it is drag and drop. >> Took weeks?

>> No, it was easy learn, and I learned how make a game in the first day.

>> You're only a few of you online doing that? >> There is a ginormous humungous community

of users. >> Why don't you write us a piece of software

that you think you're being punished? >> Almost fun to use, almost close to video

>> Yes, it's pretty easy to learn, but if you do need help, anyone can help.

>> What about downloading games? Did you have to create special stuff?

>> No, I created one in the first hour without downloading.

>> What if you want graphics in there? >> Graphic designs are included.

>> Awesome. We would like to show you the solution that's worked for us, and that scratch

by MIT, it's super cool! Miming, tell us what is Scratch?

>> It's a programming language developed by MIT in 2003, it's for ages eight and up. I

started around seven or eight. Right now, it has over 22 million users, and roughly

around 25,000 new members join every day. >> Wow.

>> And guess what? It's in German, it's in Spanish, it's in Japanese. There are over

70 languages it uses. And it only requires internet access, and, because of the recent

3.0 update, no Flash! [Applause]. >> Thank you, JavaScript community for saving

us. Awesome. To get Scratch, it's super simple. You point your browser to scratch.mit.edu,

and you're created with an IDE that looks like this. In the top-right corner is the

stage. >> That's where everything is going to happen

where Sprites are going to be moving and changing president they are the objects on the stage

that, as I said, they're going to change, move, do something. Those are the backdrops.

Those are the stages of the stage - play on words there - and it changes, it can write

the code, all that. In the middle, there's the coding area. That's where you're going

to be putting your code to make either the Sprites stage change. Next to that are the

blocks. Those are the chunks of code that we are going to be sticking together and making

your thing work. Above that are the tabs. Pretty simple code. I just told you what that

was. Costumes is where either Sprites or backdrops can change, and sounds describes itself.

>> So what we would like to do is a typical Hello, World using Scratch. Michael will come

over and do live coding for you today in Berlin. Scratch Cat is the Sprite that is default.

How about you show us a hello world script. >> First, we go to events and grab the winflag.

You need this for every piece of code we do. Then we go to looks. Grab a hell. Make that

a simple hello, world. Still using my pointy fingers. Going over to motion with ten steps.

>> Let's blow it up and hit play. That kid that you're trying to kitchen to code can

have the hello world script not learning how to type or having all of those things that

kind of get in the way, so the next what we would like to do is create a game for you

live, right here, and Michael already went to the background and used the graphic tools,

created all of us own graphics and what we see there is Jeff staying at an airport holding

a beer. Tell us the premise of the gale, Michael? >> So Jeff is German dude, and I'm not going

to do anything weird. He is there, and he's going to be throwing wiener schnitzel off

bearded dads coming off 48 aeroplanes with only three hours of sleep, and he's going

to be super angry. He has to throw beers and schnitzel to make him happy. Angry bearded

glasses dads.. >> Where did you get this idea?

>> With Grey Beard. >> We want Jeff our main character moving

around. Show us how we can make Jeff move left when you hit the left arrow button?

>> First, of course, we have to go events and grab the click block. Again, you're always

going to need this. Go to control and grab a forever and an if. It's forever going to

be asking the question: if something happens, then do whatever is in the loop. The thing

we are going to be asking is going to be keyspace press, but it's not going to be left, it's

going to be left arrow. Go to motion. We are going to point in the direction left, which

is negative 90. And then move ten steps. >> All right, so we hit the flag. We hit the

left arrow button. >> Wait, wait. There's something wrong.

>> Do we have internet? >> Do we have internet?

>> Okay. What's going on here? >> I'm on the wrong Sprite.

>> Live coding is always fun! Every Sprite is its own object. We headed in the wrong