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I just spoke to 80 first graders about programming for career day.

by jjacobson on 5/30/14, 6:36 PM with 5 comments

• by jjacobson on 5/30/14, 6:47 PM

  I should write up my notes from talking to them. I explained that programming was like speaking a language computers understood and used Spanish and English as examples.

  I defined code as the words computers understand.

  I defined a program as a story made up of code that a computer knows how to read.

  A couple of the great questions I got were "Do you like your job?" and "Do you like typing all day?"