Lynn and Llewellyn Help Developers Teach Their Kids to Program
Carl and Richard talk to Lynn Langit and Llewellyn Falco about how developers can teach their kids to program. While Lynn and Llewellyn have been teaching all sorts of kids how to program (check out the links below), they've recently published a Pluralsight course specifically for developers to teach their own kids how to program. The course is completely free - you don't need to sign up for anything! And the course lets you as a developer work with your children step by step to learn how to develop in Visual Studio - yes, with your own tools. Want to show your children what you do for a living? Take it out for a spin!
Guests:
Lynn Langit
Lynn Langit is a cloud and Big Data Architect, AWS Community Hero, Google Cloud Developer Expert, Microsoft Azure Insider, MVP, and Lynda.com author. She is currently working on IoT Cloud projects. Lynn is also director and lead courseware developer for the non-profit 'Teaching Kids Programming.
Llewellyn Falco
Llewellyn Falco is an Agile Technical Coach specializing in Legacy Code and Test Driven Development. He is the creator of the open source testing tool ApprovalTests( www.approvaltests.com ), co-founder of TeachingKidsPrograming ( www.teachingkidsprogramming.org ) and a Pluralsight author.
Links:
- Kodu from Microsoft Research http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/
- Teaching Kids Programming (TKP) http://www.teachingkidsprogramming.com/
- TKP in C# for Developers http://www.pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/teaching-kids-programming
- MONA Foundation TKP http://www.monafoundation.org/project/Teaching-Kids-Programming/22
- Lynn's Blog http://lynnlangit.com/
- Llewellyn's Blog http://llewellynfalco.blogspot.ca/