Dayton folks - are you coming to the Dayton Linux User Group's Installfest tomorrow?
The main point of our Installfests is to get everyone together for mutual help setting up and configuring computers and programs. But we like to throw in some educational talks, too, and I volunteered to give two:
Corrupting the Youth: a survey of programming environments for kids
Several open-source projects have been created to help introduce kids to computer programming by creating programming environments more intuitive and fun than simply writing code at a text editor. We'll take a quick look at several of them, some suitable for teens and others for kids barely into elementary school.
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
Object-oriented is the most common programming paradigm in use today, but some people who've only programmed in procedural languages find object-oriented terms and concepts mysterious and intimidating. We'll take the mystery out by explaining the motivations and fundamental techniques of OO programming with some easy-to-understand examples.
Hope to see some of you there!
