Principles of Play
summary
A children’s programming method focused on playfulness, rules, curiosity argues for teaching concepts before syntax and shows concrete results: a Kickstarter that raises $380,000 from a $10,000 goal, a community model that reaches 227 cities, a published Hello Ruby book and free exercises, and hands-on workshops where kids build paper computers (CPU, RAM, viruses), design apps (a dolphin-health app, mission-control navigation) and 3D-print legos — activities that reliably spark curiosity and make abstract ideas tangible.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 10:24playfulness. Rules. Curiosity.
- 12:39Rules. How? Imposing a logic on something otherwise hard to understand
- 14:22Curiosity Why? Exploration, finding hidden things, Imagination
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