Teaching programming with LiveCode to students ages 13-18
My name is Cyril Pruszko and I teach at one of the top science and technology schools in the state of Maryland, USA. Half of the students have to pass a test and compete to get into our school, the other half are comprehensive students from the surrounding area. I wanted to attract more students to the field of computers and introduce them to the joy and the challenges of programming.
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Taking too long to code? Just invent a new programming language!
In early 2014, we were looking at a roadmap that was so long it would have taken our existing team years to complete. If you work in software, you know that roadmaps only ever grow – especially if you’re supporting customers using a variety of platforms. We knew that we couldn’t go out and hire another 50 developers, so we had to be radically creative. We decided to create a new technology! This technology would make extending LiveCode so easy that we would be able to deliver our roadmap with our existing team and also enable anyone with a passion for LiveCode to add to it and share their work.
read moreRejected ideas for this blogpost:
a) A meditation on the validity or otherwise of an oft-repeated quote attributed to Dick Brandon on the utility of documentation, whilst delicately avoiding the object of the quote’s comparison.
b) A rehash of Tony Blair’s 2001 speech on education, with the word education replaced everywhere by the word documentation, Labour with LiveCode, etc etc, you see where I’m going with that.
c) An entire blog post written in the style of the documentation format, with some kind of tortured wordplay involving the words “meta” and “documentation” as the title.
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