Linda Liukas: A delightful way to teach kids about computers
琳达·卢卡斯: 给孩子讲授电脑科学的愉快方式
Linda Liukas wants to create a more diverse and colorful world of technology, starting with the poetry of code. Full bio
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that drove the whole generation.
to our imagination and our world.
more diverse set of people
and lonely and boring and magic,
孤独又无趣的东西,
that they can tinker
and so forth.
of programming and technology
on an older man,
一位年长男士,
just happened to be
阿尔·戈尔(AL Gore)先生。
of the United States, Mr. Al Gore.
teenage girl would want to do.
都想做的事。
express all of this love,
就是这个
there was no Pinterest.
也没有Pinterest
all of this longing and loving.
started for me.
是一种表达自我的方式。
I would use crayons and legos.
会用蜡笔和乐高积木来表达。
guitar lessons and theater plays.
吉他课和戏剧表演,来表达自己。
to get excited about,
are boring and technical and lonely.
还孤单。
are not supposed to like computers.
不该喜欢电脑的。
at concentrating on things
amazing questions like,
很多有意思的问题,比如
and "How?" and "What if?"
“如何?” 以及“如果?”
are not supposed to like computers.
不应该会喜欢电脑。
is this esoteric, weird science discipline
深奥晦涩又稀奇古怪的领域
from everyday life
and controls and data structures
we've made computers smaller and smaller.
of abstraction on top of each other
have any idea how computers work
到底是如何工作的
how the human body works,
人体是如何工作的
the combustion engine functions
that if you want to really be an astronaut
如果你真想要成为一名宇航员
what happens when I press 'play,'
really, really, really fast.
these amazing, beautiful machines,
very, very foreign to us,
to the computers
how to speak to the computers anymore
我们便不知道如何与电脑交流
French irregular verbs,
my pattern recognition skills.
a sequence of symbolic commands
between English and mathematics
and pinch their way through the world.
to build with computers,
instead of creators.
led me to this little girl.
imaginative and a little bit bossy.
I would run into a problem
myself programming like,
or what is garbage collection?",
little girl would explain the problem.
and I illustrated it
Ruby taught me go like this.
not supposed to be afraid
stuck together.
me to her friends,
to play with the other kids.
that are really friendly but super messy.
十分友好,却很散乱
but somewhat hard to understand.
technology through play.
are really good at repeating stuff,
loops goes like this.
it goes, "Clap, clap, stomp, stomp
“拍,拍,踏,踏”
by repeating that four times.
by repeating that sequence
你又学会了 while循环
by repeating that sequence
你就知道什么是until循环了
that there are no ready answers.
没有现成答案
for Ruby's world,
how they see the world
他们是如何看待这个世界的
play testing sessions.
these four pictures.
do you think is a computer?"
very conservative and go,
spends way too much time."
that actually, a car is a computer,
might not be a computer,
a computer inside of it.
so many different kinds of computers,
and the burglar alarms.
with an on/off button on them.
"Today you have this magic ability
into a computer."
I don't know the right answer for this."
the right answer, either.
to hear about this thing
you are going to be the ones
你们会居住在这样一个世界
where everything is a computer."
who came to me
if it were a computer,
what else could it do?"
were a computer,
with my father
could also be a movie projector."
is definitely not ready yet,
of making the world more ready
can be a part of that change.
and the helpful RAM and ROM
以及帮助电脑记忆一切的只读存储器(ROM)
our computer together,
is to be an astronaut.
these huge headphones on
in his tiny paper computer
navigation application.
in the Martian orbit,
safely back to earth.
a profoundly different view of the world
这些孩子将建立一个完全不同的认知
the more inclusive,
就越会让
we make the world of technology,
the world will look like.
我们所说的故事
don't only include
Silicon Valley boys,
and Norwegian librarians.
the little Ada Lovelaces of tomorrow,
reality of 1s and 0s,
and brave about technology.
and the opportunities
that is wonderful, whimsical
in Moominvalley.
I would roam around the Tatooines.
I would go to sleep in Narnia.
to be the perfect profession for me.
and paradigms and practices.
with the pure power of logic.
实现从无到有的创造。
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Linda Liukas - Programmer, storyteller and illustratorLinda Liukas wants to create a more diverse and colorful world of technology, starting with the poetry of code.
Why you should listen
Linda Liukas is a programmer, storyteller and illustrator. Her children's book, Hello Ruby, is the "world’s most whimsical way to learn about technology, computing and coding.” Liukas founded Rails Girls, which has organized workshops in over 230 cities, teaching the basics of programming to more than 10,000 women. Linda worked at Codeacademy, which she left to write stories that teach children about software and programming. She won the 2013 Ruby Hero prize and was named the Digital Champion of Finland by the EU Commissioner for Digital Agenda.
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