[Ggcs-presentations] Possible February GM

[bcbloch at juno.com]

PLEASE JOIN IN AND SEND ME A LIST OF ISSUES YOU'D LIKE HIM TO TOUCH ON. I've thought of the following:What are the kids learning in all these "coding" classes and programs
What should adults know about coding to understand it.- are there classes or resources for adult to learn something about coding? (Ivan has already told me he could cover this one).
How can you apply what you learn in a coding class
Is coding the same as programming
WHAT DO YOU WANT HIM TO COVER AND SHOULD WE IGNORE ANY OF THE ABOVE?
Babette

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From: Marcelino Nogueiro <mnogueiro at hotmail.com>
To: "GGCS-Presentations at ggcs.org" <GGCS-Presentations at ggcs.org>
Subject: Re: [Ggcs-presentations] Possible February GM
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:04:49 +0000


Yes, I like it.  Let's try to get Ivan if possible.  I think a GM on this will be great.
Coding and Programming are basically the same but programming has become too general and can refer to "programming your thermostat"!
Coding is more specific to writing software or now "Apps".  
 
Thanks,
 Marcelino

 
From: Ggcs-presentations <ggcs-presentations-bounces at ggcs.org> on behalf of bcbloch at juno.com <bcbloch at juno.com>
 Sent: Monday, January 9, 2017 5:41 PM
 To: GGCS-Presentations at ggcs.org
 Subject: [Ggcs-presentations] Possible February GM We talked about trying to establish a "theme" in our GM's that outreaches to parents of school and HS age kids. With that in mind, I think that something on Coding would be of interest to them, and even maybe to our regular over-aged membership.  Kids all over are taking coding classes, and frankly I don't know the difference between coding and programming, what they learn, what it prepares them to do, etc. Something like "Demystifying Coding - What are your kids and grand kids doing in those classes, and can you learn to code-talk to them about it?" The only person I know right now who is conversant in coding is Ivan Silva at the Tiburon Library -he runs their program and classes on coding. I was at the library today for another meeting and talked to him about it and he says he could do the meeting and would be available for February.  In fact he would like the idea of Feb. meeting, because it would give him time to plan it out. How does this sound to you folks and should I go ahead with this? Babette
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