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Discussion on: What are your favorite analogies to explain programming?

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

I totally agree with Replace magic with understanding

I want to begin the workshop with making them try out this tool

hackertyper.net/

Type whatever super fast and it prints out code like in Hollywood Movies.

Then I will say:

Congrats, you can now be a programming ninja in an Hollywood movie.
Now the bad news: this has nothing to do with programming.

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MurrayVarey

That's an awesome idea (and awesome tool). You could even have them share a keyboard, like that hilarious scene in NCIS. "I've never seen code like this!"

I wish some of my teachers had been so engaging!