deck from talk at Agile PDX UG, describes the application of Agile technical practices to TKP teaching practices for introducing kids ages 10+ to programming.

1. with The Intentional Method
By Lynn Langit & Llewellyn Falco

2. What is TKP?
• 8 units covering introductory programming concepts
• Modular (up to 120 minutes per module)
• Tested on over 2,000 kids
FREE & Fun Courseware (for ages 10+)
• Written recommendations
• Video-based unit teacher training
Repository of best teaching practices

3. Where is TKP?

4. Setup
Teaching Programming
Traditional Long Setup Manual Deploy
Agile Immediate Setup Single Click Deploy

5. Experience Areas
1) Setup – 0-15 minutes for 30 students
2) Recipe – 15-20 minutes
3) Recap – 5-10 minutes
4) Variation – 10-15 minutes
5) Quiz – 10-15 minutes
6) Enrichment– 30-45 minutes!

7. Experience 1:Recipe
Executing their 1st program within 2 minutes

8. Teaching Programming
Traditional Conceptual Lecture Full-blown Product
Agile Engage & See Minimum Marketable
Feature
Experience 1:Recipe
Executing their 1st program within 2 minutes

9. Experience 1: Recipe
Collaborative Learning

10. Teaching Programming
Traditional Individual Learning Isolated Working
Agile Pairing Pairing
Experience 1:Recipe
Collaborative Learning

11. 5 Rules
of Accelerated Learning
O KEEP IT ALIVE
O HUNT FLUENCY
O START OBVIOUS
O STAY FOCUSED
O ADAPT THE SETTING

12. Types of learning
Explicit
Experience
Fluency
Awareness
Inspiration
Confidence
Abstraction
Problem Solving

13. Experience 1: Recipe
1 line English = 1 verifiable line code
i.e. lines 1,5,3, NOT 1, 2, 3

14. Teaching Programming
Traditional Big Exercises Test After
Agile Small Feedback Loop Test First
Experience 1:Recipe
1 line English = 1 verifiable line code
i.e. lines 1,5,3, NOT 1, 2, 3

15. Experience 1: Recipe
Virtual Proctor

16. Teaching Programming
Traditional Turn in your Project Feedback Releases
Agile Rapid Feedback Onsite Costumer
Experience 1:Recipe
Virtual Proctor

18. Experience 2: Recap
Exploring what we did

19. Teaching Programming
Traditional Conceptual First Expert Staff
Agile Recap Retrospectives
Experience 2:Recap
Exploring what we did

20. Experience 2: Recap
Exploring Mistakes

21. Teaching Programming
Traditional Follow Directions Don’t Make Mistakes
Agile Explore Learn from your Mistakes
Experience 2:Recap
Exploring Mistakes

22. Experience 2: Recap
Discovering Patterns

23. Teaching Programming
Traditional Lecture & Listen Architecture
Agile Emergent Concepts Emergent Design
Experience 2:Recap
Discovering Patterns

24. Experience 2: Recap
Learning to use your IDE

25. Teaching Programming
Traditional Don’t use calculators Tool is powerful
Agile Master your tools Craftsmanship
Experience 2:Recap
Learning to use your IDE

27. Experience 3: Variation
You can do the same thing with different code

28. Teaching Programming
Traditional There is 1 right way Repurposing
Agile Refactoring Refactoring
Experience 2:Variation
You can do the same thing with different code

29. Experience 3: Variations
Joy, ownership

30. Teaching Programming
Traditional Learning is Serious Resources
Agile Learning is Joyful People
Joy, ownership
Experience 2:Variation

31. Experience 3: Variation

32. Teaching Programming
Traditional Teach whole concept Big Upfront Design
Agile Iterative Learning Incremental & Iterative
Experience 3:Variation
Variations

33. Experience 3: Variation
Coding is Joy

35. Experience 4: Quiz
Teaching from the back of the room

36. Teaching Programming
Traditional Lecture, Lab Assist,
Grader
Specialist
Agile Facilitator & Teacher Cross Functional Team
Experience 4:Quiz
Teaching from the back of the room

37. Experience 4: Quiz
½ way done

38. Teaching Programming
Traditional Grades tomorrow QA
Agile Red…Green Red…Green
Experience 4:Quiz
½ way done

39. Experience 4: Quiz
100% of pairs get 100% right

40. Teaching Programming
Traditional Quizzes show what you
didn’t learn
Release Criteria
Agile Quizzes show what you
did learn
Continuous Intergration
Experience 4:Quiz
100% pass rate

41. Experience 4: Quiz
Quizzes
are rewards

42. Teaching Programming
Traditional Quizzes suck! Death March
Agile Learning rocks! Happiness Matters
Experience 4:Quiz
Quizzes are rewards

44. Experience 5: Enrichment
Group learning

45. Teaching Programming
Traditional Solo Solo
Agile Randori Mobbing
Experience 5: Enrichment
Group Learning

46. Experience 5: Enrichment
Experiment, run and try (again)  good hacking!

47. Teaching Programming
Traditional Time is fixed, mastery will
vary
Fixed Scope
Agile Mastery is fixed, time will
vary
Potentially Shippable
Experience 5: Enrichment
Experiment, run and try (again)  good hacking!

48. Experience 5: Extras
O Mini recipes
O Warm-ups or fill-ins if pairs finish early

49. Next Steps For Teachers
Try out the content – do the recipes

50. GitHub
lfal.co/tkpjava

51. TKP Lessons Ready Now
Using Objects,
Methods &
For Loops
Creating
Methods
If statements
Code Mastery Recursion
Model View
Controller
Events
Test Driven
Development

52. Next Steps - Teach

53. www.TeachingKidsProgramming.org
@Llewellyn Falco
www.ApprovalTests.com
@LynnLangit
www.lynnlangit.com