Episode 024: Seeing Programming Where Other People Don’t with Felienne Hermans




Greater Than Code show

Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/jessitron"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessica Kerr</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">| </span><a href="https://twitter.com/geeksam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Livingston-Gray</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ianthro"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Astrid Countee</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ReinH"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rein Henrichs</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Felienne Hermans: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Felienne"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@Felienne</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://www.felienne.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">felienne.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://www.tudelft.nl/en/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Delft University of Technology</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://joyofcoding.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joy of Coding Conference</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://www.se-radio.net/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SE Radio</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCup_Junior"><span style="font-weight: 400;">RoboCup Junior</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>00:16 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Welcome to “The Netherlands Invented Gay Marriage, So We Should Be Scared of Them Now!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”</span></p> <p><b>01:28</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Origin Story</span></p> <p><b>03:17</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Programming Perspectives From People of Different Backgrounds; Teaching Adults vs Children</span></p> <p><b>06:12 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Teaching Programming as a Language; Aha! Moments</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://scratch.mit.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scratch Programming</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goldieblox.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GoldieBlox</span></a></p> <p><b>12:26 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Identity and why do we so often use the phrase “not real programming”? What do we define as software? Tooling</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://products.office.com/en-us/excel"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Microsoft Excel</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.felienne.com/Expector"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Expector</span></a></p> <p><b>20:13 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">–  Should everyone know programming? Why? What should they know/be able to do? (Digital Literacy)</span></p> <p><b>28:27 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– What is the programming equivalent of a library/librarian?</span></p> <p><b>33:06 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Does STEM education make other forms of education obsolete? Why not?</span></p> <p><b>35:15 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Things to Get Better at Programming Other Than Programming</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://codekata.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CodeKata</span></a></p> <p><b>48:58 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Fighting Against “Real” Programming and Being Hesitant to Let in Newcomers</span></p> <p><b>50:40 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– What can we do to help spread the knowledge? </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Reflections:</b></p> <p><b>Felienne: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">If people say they are programming, they are. Limit belittling and surprise. Do not contaminate others with what your own idea of programming is.</span></p> <p><b>Jessic</b></p>