Today I trekked to my daughter's school (a long walk across the street!) to speak at her after-school coding club that's been meeting weekly over the last month. It was really fun to see how they were learning to code. I knew they were using Scratch (which Ella has excitedly talked about over di
The gravity of the day is only now sinking in, and I choked up as I wrote this. Ella generally knows what I do, and often sees me staring at a glowing rectangle far more than I'd like.
But today I got to share my world — this world of code that I've been immersed in for nearly all of my life — with my daughter, her peers, and teachers. I got to proudly show off Ella's own coded creations, and got to see everyone's delight in collaborating to make something fun together.
There was no talk about business value, GitHub issues, stakeholder alignment, or developer handoff. I simply got to articulate the sheer magic that is coding, the magic that is the World Wide Web, the magic that is having ideas, the magic of bringing those ideas to life, and the magic of creating things with other people.
Thank you, coding club. Thank you, World Wide Web. Thank you, code.
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