- Speaker : Marco Amado
- Length : 25-40 minutes
- Language : Portuguese, unless there's at least one non-portuguese-speaking attendee, in which case, English
This will be an expansion of a previosly lightning talk given at Codebits 2014, with the same name.
It'll have two parts:
- Why should everyone, and particularly children, learn how to code, or at least understand some of it's concepts?
- Will future automatons (from house ligths to self-driving cars) be able to understand natural language and the intricacies of human intents beyond simple and clear commands, let alone emotional decisions?
- Will there be jobs for humans on the not-so-far future? What kind of jobs? You may want to think this one through...
- What is currently being done about it and what can we teach our younglings?
- Projects that are currently teaching code to children or training educators to teach code for free or close;
- How to teach code to children (highly IMHO-ridden matter, although an informed opinion, to say the least)
I've been a professional developer for ten years now, ranging from web (both frontend and backend) to desktop and mobile applications.
I have two daughters, aged 12 and 5, and that pretty much qualifies me to give this talk; or to give Zen workshops; or the "Top ten reasons why Frozen is much deeper than it seems on the surface" talk. You pick.
I started learning code at age 6, more than 30 years ago, in an age before internet was a thing. That also gave me a concrete and first-hand insight into this theme, given that I had to start pretty much alone and with nowhere to go when things went south.
- Blog: http://www.dreamsincode.com
- Company: https://www.moloni.com
- Github: https://github.com/mjamado
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/mjamado
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