About this Episode
Parent Driven Development
Episode 024: Teaching Kids to Code
01:29 Winding up in a developer evangelist role and teaching coding
02:58 Teaching younger vs older audiences
03:52 Getting kids motivated in the coding space
05:13 The benefits for kids who know coding literacy
08:16 Kevin's background in coding
08:45 Using Twilio (and real-world technology and tools) in teaching kids to code
13:31 Resources & Tools
15:24 Is Minecraft useful?
18:11 Next level resources
19:46 Helping passionate kids along the way (without scaring them away)
- Events, Hackathons, and Conferences
31:05 Genius / Fail Moments
- Josh: Putting a bandaid (glass screen protector) over his daughter's broken iPad screen. (#Genius)
- Chris: Letting his daughter make pasta! (#Genius)
- Kevin: Letting his daughter make pancakes! (#Genius)
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