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PyCon2016 Keynote
Keynote delivered at the opening of PyCon 2016, Portland, OR (May 30, 2016):
“Beyond “Learning to Program” — Education, Open-Source Culture, and Structured Collaboration in Language”
My theme has to do with the open-source culture, and the impact it can have in education—beyond a narrative of simply “learning to code,” and also beyond the hijacked buzzword of “computational thinking”
The argument goes somewhat like this: we have this open-source culture that emerges from a community; and this culture developed a language that allows us to coordinate with each other to create value together.
How? Because “people act through language.”
(Winograd & Flores, 1987)
