I recently attended GOTO conference in Copenhagen (https://gotocph.com/2025, you can find the slides for some of the presentations there) and would like to share some of the interesting topics.
This was something very new to me to here about. Sonic-PI is the application which is crazy marriage of coding and art which also serves educational purposes. This was created by Sam Aaron. Not only was he talking about the technical details but he also gave a short performance on the stage playing various music by executing the code live...
He is very positive person with much energy and by this software he brings the example you can be coding not only for business. I had a chance to talk with him for a while and I very much like and support this idea. I think it is great it's possible to make a step towards art from technical IT world and create something so unusual. For me it is a new angle I can look at the music creation and performance.
I said this was the tool for music but it is also actively used for teaching programming. Children want to emit sounds and so they need to learn the syntax - the melody verifies if the code is correct. This is very encouraging for the kids to try new code blocks to achieve new musical results and so they can improve their coding skills fast.
You need to try it yourself and especially your children if they want to learn coding and create some nice music at the same time: https://sonic-pi.net
Sam is currently also working on another version of the idea to have coding platform for music and visuals using Erlang stack. This is work in progress yet but the results will be very inspiring I am sure.
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