[Events] On teaching programming classes for children

[Sumana Harihareswara]

http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/08/so-you-want-to-run-a-young-coders-class.html

Raspberry Pi slides: https://github.com/mechanicalgirl/young-coders-tutorial

An interesting point of view. For instance, this author (Katie
Cunningham) suggests *not* charging for the workshop, and says "I don’t
recommend opening up the sign-up any sooner than two weeks beforehand.
Trust me, you will not have any trouble finding students. If you open it
up too far in advance, though, you stand a higher chance of no shows."
She prefers not to teach children under the age of 12:

"Why? Typing speed.

"No matter how smart a kid is, no matter mature, if they can’t type
quickly, they will fall behind. If I have to wait for a small child to
hunt and peck, the older students get bored and distracted. Also, hunt
and peck seems to lead to more typos, which are harder for younger
children to catch because they’re not terribly fast at scanning a screen
of text."
-- 
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation