Introduction to software developer profession for teens

2017-11-20 Thread Vitaly Repin
Hello, This Sunday I will have an 1 hour workshop with the teens (age 14-18) with the purpose to explain them what software developer profession is about. I found this opportunity as a very interesting but also challenging. I plan to tell them also about FOSS and possibilities to study programmi

Re: Introduction to software developer profession for teens

2017-11-20 Thread Carmen Bianca Bakker
Hi Vitaly, Vitaly Repin schreef op ma 20-11-2017 om 15:53 [+0200]: > This Sunday I will have an 1 hour workshop with the teens (age 14-18) > with the purpose to explain them what software developer profession is > about.  That's quite short for a workshop.  What will they be doing, and how many o

Re: Introduction to software developer profession for teens

2017-11-20 Thread Vitaly Repin
Hello, 2017-11-20 16:37 GMT+02:00 Carmen Bianca Bakker : > > That's quite short for a workshop. What will they be doing, and how > many of them will attend? > > It will be a workshop for a small group - not more than 12. > The angle of using Free Software as a self-study tool is good :) I am >

Re: Introduction to software developer profession for teens

2017-11-20 Thread Nico Rikken
Hi Vitaly, Each year I go back to my highschool for a similar purpose. I tell them that there is more to software development than just coding: getting requirements, providing support, trying new stuff, drinking coffee, etc. I alway show a bit of code as a glimpse, but is quite offputting to most.

Re: Introduction to software developer profession for teens

2017-11-20 Thread Paul Hänsch
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 03:53:40PM +0200, Vitaly Repin wrote: > I found this opportunity as a very interesting but also challenging. I plan > to tell them also about FOSS and possibilities to study programming by > participating in different FOSS projects. I would say, do not set FLOSS apart as s

Re: Introduction to software developer profession for teens

2017-11-20 Thread Florian Snow
Hi, Carmen Bianca Bakker writes: > - You do not need to be good at maths to be a decent software > engineer. Thank you for pointing that out. I completely forgot about that. I always play this little game with students where I ask them which subject they think is the most important to becom

Re: Introduction to software developer profession for teens

2017-11-20 Thread Florian Snow
Hi Vitaly, I think this is a very good idea and I would like to thank you for this very important work! Vitaly Repin writes: > I found this opportunity as a very interesting but also challenging. I > plan to tell them also about FOSS and possibilities to study > programming by participating in