Experience Report - Teaching Kids to Code for 10 Years
summary
Eleven years of classroom experiments produce a free curriculum that moves kids from Scratch/Kodu/Small Basic into Java via a specially configured Eclipse IDE (over 100 editor tweaks) and TKP Java APIs, packaged as a yearlong library of 80–90 lessons and recipes. Field results: pilots in Copenhagen, Lusaka, Palo Alto, Molokai and the West Bank train teachers and students (400+ pupils in one rollout), but practical limits remain—about 50% install failure on local setups, solved in part by an online Codenvy/Eclipse Che IDE.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Personal journey into tech
- 4:49Early outreach and tools
- 9:33Developing the curriculum
- 13:30Global teaching experiences
- 17:42Bridging to formal coding
- 21:56Curriculum methodology
- 26:47Building educational support
- 31:59Collaborative summer camps
- 38:34Data science and creativity
- 43:28Expansion and future vision
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