13 March 2013

Semi-wordless Wednesday: Beaver-cat & Girl

I'm helping sponsor a new club at school.  It is all about teaching girls how to code on computers so that more women end up in computer science jobs.

I love it.

In the first few meetings, I have learned to create images with code.

Here is my drawing - created by typing in the codes on the left of the image.

Behold: Beaver-cat & Girl


6 comments:

  1. Stuff like that gives me a headache :) I think it's awesome, I am just not a math-y, science-y brained person.

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    1. It's not as hard as it seems. All the directions are on the lower part of the page: http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/new

      Try it out. You can even start simple with a triangle or rectangle.

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  2. Very nice!

    Way back in the early 1980s we had an Apple II computer. Most tasks had to be programmed using Basic. Never could get the hang of it.

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    1. I used to love the Apple IIe - I remember making a little turtle move on it by saying RT90, FD50, LT90, etc. I think those were the letters for right, forward, and left.

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  3. YAY! YAY! YAY!

    We just started a dojo for kids at the hackerspace of which I'm a board member. I'm so very excited to get girls interested in writing code! And I am so very happy that you're participating in it too!

    Full disclosure: I totally clapped and squeed in my out loud voice when I read this post.

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    1. I love that it got you excited!! I am loving the club and wish more girls would join (and that I'd had it as a student)!

      Good luck with your dojo!

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