Sonic Pi - Live Coding as a tool for next-gen education.

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Sonic Pi is a free code-based music tool that targets classrooms and pro musicians, teaching sequencing, functions, loops and data structures while also solving live‑coding needs: precise time scheduler, concurrency and live_loops for hot‑swapping code without stopping the beat, deterministic randomisation, event streams and DSL hooks. It runs on Mac Linux Windows and Raspberry Pi, supports MIDI OSC and Ableton Link, is used in schools and gigs (including a Royal Albert Hall set) and has taught ~2,000 women and girls on an educational tour, so it works.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 7:23Sonic Pi's educational mission
3. 18:13From Overtone to design
4. 23:08Why music captivates kids
5. 30:18Programming for expression
6. 32:26Live coding basics
7. 46:40Teaching concurrency
8. 51:54Global impact in education
9. 55:20Comparisons to other tools
10. 1:01:18Live coding demo
11. 1:09:49Closing remarks

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