Last year I was asked to give a workshop on a birthday party. I know the birthday girl and she came by my house a few weeks before to hear what I would be doing and she loved it so she decided to have a programming themed birthday party and I got to entertain a party of nine 10 year olds. These are all gifted kids, I actually had a hard time keeping up with the questions once they got started.
I prepared a cheat sheet to hand out.
We agreed that it would take maximum 2 hours and I figured that if some kids were not into it I needed some extra stuff. So I brought my Lego EV3 robot with a GoPro mounted on it, it is controlled by an off brand XBox controller connected to an old laptop where you get live video from the GoPro. I wrote Python and Java code to do that, I use that in other workshops as well.
At the party I demoed some Sonic Pi stuff, rushing trough the code on the cheat sheet so after 15 minutes they all were coding beeps and beats.
This was great fun and Iād love to do it again.
They all had matching T-shirts and I got one as well.
