programming

I created something with Sonic Pi. Listen here

SonicPi is a music editor, which lets you write code that generates music. Exciting! I am someone who knows very little about music theory or playing an instrument. But I know how to code! I feel like the perfect audience for this. It’s also aimed at school kids to teach them programming making it fun, interactive and tangible(the opposite of abstract which is how it usually is). When I looked at the code, it reminded of Ruby....

Recently I met a 9th grader, who told me they were learning Python in their computers class. I was happy because Python is the easiest programming language there is, and probably the best language for kids to get started. It reminds me of the time, when I was in 9th grade, we had C in our curriculum. And there was (still is) a huge, authoritative book called “Let us C”, which was used as our textbook....