Functional Programming For High Schoolers
summary
Organizes a student-run Paradigm Conference with a hackathon and a five-problem coding contest (Hamming distance, isograms, Vigenère, Pig Latin) using replit, exorcism and domjudge, plus YouTube lessons and a Discord; reaches 300 teens overall with about 50 daily attendees, and raises $10,000 in swag/prizes. Demonstrates that learners can produce idiomatic Clojure solutions, shows which problems trip newcomers (Pig Latin regex unsolved), and argues Clojure maps cleanly onto AP CSA topics for classroom adoption.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:45Background
- 8:08Paradigm Conference
- 15:00Conference Stats
- 16:37Feedback
- 18:26Ideas
- 19:04Closure in the Classroom
- 20:01Sample Curriculum
- 22:38Next Steps
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