Today I have my first programming class to 8th grade students from the school I attended when I was their age. I believe that is the right time to learn how to program (later in high-school you’ll have other interests beside school, and no time to do your “homework” exploring this world) so I volunteered to give 3/4 extra-curricular classes after school.
I had 10 students ( most of the ones signed up missed because they had a field trip) today and they were really exciting about doing programs and probably because of that, this 13 year old kids learned in 1h30 what it would take freshmen from Computer Science 3 hours to learn! (Although I didn’t went so deeply as a CS stud would).
I’m find this course to be really promising and next class we’ll do some prime number magic, and the one following something with Twitter API. And if I get some robots borrowed from the University, maybe we’ll play with that too!
If you are interested and you understand Portuguese, you can take a look at the wiki page.