Don't Teach Coding: Until You Read This Book

Introduction 9 Who is this book for? 11 Let's Do It! 11 Chapter 1: Prologues 13 A Wizard's Tale 13 The Sorting of Wizards 13 The Call to Action 17 A Language Without 17 Our Strange Protagonists 17 (cons 'Apple 'Soft) 19 Tower of Babel 21 Confessions 22 Penances 22 A Language Within 23 Installing Languages 23 Writing in Tongues 24 Kiss, Gift, Poison 25 Nova: Va o no va? 27 Hello, Hello, Hello 27 Languages Without 29 Tongueless Languages 30 Babbage's Calculus Club 32 Diffs 34 Finite Descriptions of the Infinite 34 Bottling the Human Will 35 Machines Anchor Language 37 Now That It's Out of Our System 40 Languages Within 40 Signed Languages 42 Silent Battles 43 Our Strange Citizens of Broca's Area 47 Chapter 2: Beginnings 49 A Wizard's Tale 49 The Leap of Faith 49 The Forge 51 They Slept 53 A Language Without 53 Syntax - Building Materials 55 A Meta-Linguistic Meander 56 Back to Syntax 57 Semantics: "When your eyes see this, do this with your brain..." 58 Checking Assumptions 61 We Have a "Language". Now What? 61 A Language Within 62 Cats 62 Stories and Back Stories 66 Ab(stract) 68 Shortest Path: Dijkstra to You 69 A Brave New Syntax 73 Languages Without 75 The Unwritten, Unwritable Backstory 77 Three Old Friends: Language, Math, Algorithms 78 Algorithms of Antiquity 80 A Brief Story of Stories 83 Languages Within 83 Foreign Language: A Friend, Perhaps A Mentor 88 Zapping Broca's Area 88 More Monkey Business 89 Chapter 3: Middles 91 A Wizard's Tale 91 Purgatory 91 Descent 92 Ascent 94 A Language Without 95 (Stories (Within Stories)) 95 Order Word 99 Easing the Transition 100 Magic Tricks 101 A Language Within 108 Implicit Learning 108 Animation 109 Napoleon's Risky Maneuver 112 Noughts and Crosses 116 Round Stories; Square Frames 117 Languages Without 118 Illusions of Mind 118 Dactylonomy: Digits to Digital 119 Externalization 121 The Spark of the Pascaline 123 The Best of all Possible Languages 124 Automatons 127 King Ludd 129 The Song of the Luddites 131 Languages Within 133 The Machine Within 133 Potions for the Mind 134 Science and Schools 135 Mindset 137 Metacognition 138 Deliberate Practice 140 Second Language Acquisition 140 Krash Course 141 Fluency and Expertise 143 What It Feels Like to Upgrade Your Own Wetware 145 Meta-teaching 147 A Universal Educational Language 148 The Loop of Being Human 151 Chapter 4: Ends 153 A Wizard's Tale 153 Learn to Teach; Teach to Learn 153 Montage 155 Loop Back 159 The Beginning 160 A Language Without 161 Our Road Thus Far 161 Definitions 161 Becoming the Machine 163 Loops 164 Mad Libs 166 Turing Completeness 167 Ifs 171 Extending Language 174 A Language Within 175 So lernt man lernen: Der Weg zum Erfolg 175 Designing Your Deck 180 The System 183 Unburdening Yourself 185 Parting Exercises 186 Languages Without 187 The Flood and the Tower 187 Soft is the New Hard, and the Old Hard 188 Abstraction's Arrow 190 Languages Within 194 The Education Bottleneck 194 History's First Coding Students 195 (environment (mind (fluency))) 198 Co-Authoring the EdTech Story 202 Babbages and Lovelaces of Education 207 This Final Section Has No Name 208 Conclusion 209 Next Steps: Learning Sciences 209 Next Steps: Languages to Learn 209 Next Steps: Coding 210 Next Steps: Software Engineering 210 Next Steps: Hacker Culture 211 Next Steps: History 211 Naming Things: Computer Science 211 Naming Things: Philosophy of Mind 212 Naming Things: Learning Science 212 Thank You 213 Bibliography 2