Sneha Challa gave a presentation on introducing programming to children. Her niece asked if she could learn programming to buy toys, and Sneha told her niece to listen to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" instead of being naughty. Prior to programming, Sneha studied at school and learned from books and online tutorials, including learning Java from a book by Stephen Roehrig. To introduce a 5-year old to programming, Sneha used a mouse and cheese puzzle activity. She discussed debugging programs when "bugs creep in" and conveyed complex programming concepts based on a class by Professor Chris Labash on explaining complexity.

1. Presenter: Sneha Challa
Date: 10/9/2014
Carnegie Mellon University

2. Kids have a lot of questions..!

3. Conversation during the party
My Niece(Meghana): “You
get money for writing
programs? What is this all
about? I will learn
programming and buy all the
toys that mom refuses to buy
for me..”
Me: Stop being naughty!
Why don’t you listen to
the lastest tune of
“Twinkle Twinkle Little
Star” ?

4. The reaction to my response

5. What did I do before I started programming?

6. School, Books and Online tutorials…
JAVA PROGRAMMING
BY STEPHEN
ROEHRIG

7. How do you introduce programming to a 5-year
old?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2455786/career-day-in-
kindergarten-how-to-demonstrate-programming-in-20-minutes
WHAT IS A
ASSEMBLY/
STRUCTURED/
PROCEDURAL
LANGUAGE???!!

8. Using a Mouse and Cheese puzzle

9. When the ‘Bug’ creeps in…. ‘’Debug”
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2455786/career-day-in-
kindergarten-how-to-demonstrate-programming-in-20-minutes

10. Results for my effort

11. How did I convey complexity?
Professor Chris Labash’s class presentation on Conveying Complexity

12. Any Questions?
My Email: snehac@andrew.cmu.edu