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"How to teach programming (and other things)?" by Felienne Hermans

Felienne Hermans's Strange Loop keynote on the history and pedagogy of teaching programming. She questions exploration-only approaches like Logo and discusses research supporting explicit instruction and rote practice.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Cited in threads about teaching kids and beginners to code as research-based evidence that explicit instruction beats pure discovery.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Strange Loop Conference
Topic
programming education
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
9
Recommendation years in dataset
2019–2026

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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  • Also, I attended Strange Loop conference last September and there was a keynote speaker who discussed effective ways of teaching programming to kids. The talk is on YouTube and I gotta say, it's very insightful. "How to teach programming (and other things)?" by Felienne Hermans …

    kashfi on Hacker News · 2020-04
    In Ask HN: As a programmer, how should I teach coding to my kid?

  • I'm struggling to parse "essentially motivationally self-taught" but if you mean to say something like "only self-taught programmers will successfully learn to program" that's a myth that isn't backed up by the evidence and serves to exclude people from programming. This talk addresses that misconception: …

    noelwelsh on Hacker News · 2019-12
    In Learning to code vs. learning to automate

  • There's a StrangeLoop talk about teaching programming by Felienne Hermans ( [VIDEO] ) that claims that all fields have an "exploration vs instruction" debate on how to teach their field, but this debate is apparently absent from the field of programming for the most part, …

    chrisdone on Hacker News · 2020-05
    In History of Logo

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