2025-11-07 –, Room 334
I'll walk you through my process of building interactive visual learning tools with my children and share with you what we built and let you play with them as well. Topics include logic gates, simple simulations and systems thinking.
This talk is suitable for beginners and the platforms we built are fun for adults as well. Learning can be fun :)
As a web developer with small children, I wanted to find a way for them to engage with computer programming concepts without having to write functions or even have to read. In collaboration with my kids I built a few simulation/games/learning tools to explore different concepts.
I was heavily influenced by Bret Victor. I was also inspired by the Nand2Tetris course.
My projects are all free and open source and I welcome feedback and collaboration to make them better: https://github.com/imme5150/
A freelance web developer since 2004, Josh primarily uses Ruby on Rails hosted on Heroku. He is the lead programmer for a number of small companies and enjoys contributing to open source projects. Josh loves tracking down bugs and mentoring programmers (when he's not sailing).