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title: "Post #144176197148"
date: 2016-05-11 01:39:57 +00
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# A million things to do with a computer!

[programmingisterrible](http://programmingisterrible.tumblr.com/post/144144276173):

> I gave a talk at [!!con](http://bangbangcon.com) last weekend, about my favourite programming language scratch:
> 
> > Back in 1971, Cynthia Solomon and Seymour Papert wrote “Twenty things to do with a computer”, about their experiences of teaching children to use Logo and their ideas for the future.
> > 
> > They were wrong: There’s a lot more than twenty. Logo’s successor, Scratch, has over thirteen million things that children and adults alike have built. Scratch is radically approachable in a way that puts every other language to shame.
> > 
> > This talk is about the history, present, and future of Scratch: why Scratch is about ‘coding to learn’, and not about ‘learning to code’.
> 
> I had a incredible time at !!con. The live captioning was fantastic ([and they’re crowdfunding a game to teach steno too](https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-steno-project/steno-hero)).
> 
> The livestreams are up (but no captions), and [my talk is 3h29m32s in on day 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3ox1zQcV_I#t=3h29m32s).

May 10th, 2016 6:39pm