May 182008
Last month at LugRadio Live USA 2008 in San Francisco, I gave a talk discussing programming education and Pigeon, my learner’s programming language. Videos of all the talks at LugRadio Live are going up. Below is my talk, which you can also download. (I occasionally mumble a few key words. Sorry.)
The current status of Pigeon is that I still haven’t bothered to put the finishing touches on it for it to be actually usable, as I’m currently working on the material for students to learn Python after learning Pigeon. Until I give learners some plausible place to go after Pigeon, I figure I can put off finishing up Pigeon itself.
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