THE VIDEO SHELF · programming education
"Hedy: A Gradual programming language" by Felienne Hermans (Strange Loop 2022)
Felienne Hermans presents Hedy, a gradual programming language for teaching kids that moves through levels from almost no syntax toward full Python. The talk covers why error messages and syntax are scary for beginners.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it in beginner-programming-education threads for its distinction between easy to learn and easy to teach.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Strange Loop Conference
- Topic
- programming education
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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This reminded me a little of Hedy language: [LINK] It starts off super simple, like: print something and then introduces all the fiddly concepts like quoting, escaping etc. 1 by 1 until it turns into python. The designer had a neat talk about it at …
ZeroGravitas on Hacker News · 2022-11
In Show HN: Easylang – A browser-based first programming languageFor 8yo, maybe you can consider bringing her through Hedy: [LINK] It's gradual (starts easy but limited, then with progress through levels gets more precise and powerful), and I read that it gets to full blown Python programming. Theres an excellent talk on the approach …
dndn1 on Hacker News · 2023-01
In Show HN: A 100% free and interactive Python course for coding beginners
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