My 8 year old is really weaker than others’ 8 year old.
Editor’s note: This article comes from WeChat public account “ 爱 范 儿 ” (ID: ifanr), author Li Chen.
What were you doing when you were 8 years old? When I was 8 years old, I was still in the second grade of elementary school. I spent all day watching comics and playing with other children.
The 8-year-old Vita Jun has exceeded 1 million views on Station B with 13 videos, and reached 64,000 followers. The most important ones are 10 of them video tutorials on programming, and it took only 3 months from the first programming video to the latest one.
Different from programming when I first chose computer science when I was in college. Today’s programming early education institutions have blossomed and even flooded, and many parents are afraid that their children will “lose on the starting line” again. Report to the children early programming classes.
But in terms of effect alone, it may not be as good as a video of a kid like Vita Jun going to the battle to explain it in person. Because what surprised the readers of Station B most is that Vita’s explanation in the video is very clear and logical, and it is easy for both adults and children to understand.
But it can make the boring programming in the past into a content that can be explained by elementary school students. The presentation tools used must not be traditional tools. In fact, the tool used by Vita is iPad. The demonstration programming software is called Swift Playgrounds app. Through the simple Swift language commands and the visual interface of the game mode, the extremely high content of programming can be greatly simplified.To the point that elementary school students can learn to explain.
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Swift is a new-generation programming language introduced by Apple at WWDC in 2014. Its main role is to develop applications for macOS and iOS. It can also be said that it is a set of programming languages tailored for the Apple ecosystem. The advantages.
If the 8-year-old Vita-Kun is a glittering little Maxima, then the father of the young Vita-Kun Zhou can be said to be his Bole. In fact, Vita-Kun went from learning to programming to submitting it at station B later Video, everything behind the scenes is Dad Zhou.
Papa Zhou can be said to be an “ideal parent” in the hearts of many children. He also started to learn programming when he was so old, and later taught himself high numbers. Dad Zhou, who graduated from Shanghai and abroad, was a member of the Japanese subtitles group that was rare at the time 15 years ago.
As a “compiler”, Dad Zhou soon discovered that Swift combined with Apple’s own app is a programming language that is very suitable for entry. The Swift Playgrounds app mentioned earlier was specially developed by Apple and was implemented through games. Software for getting started with programming. Control the little monster “Byte” through programming commands to complete the forward, turn, and collect gems.To further use complex commands such as loops and functions.
Just after tentative guidance, Junior Vita Jun also showed great interest. This led to the “Primary School Teach You to Learn Programming” series on the B station and became popular.
It ’s better to teach yourself than to teach yourself. You have to go online to teach. Dad Zhou and Little Vita Jun were also invited by Apple. In the “Playing Programming with Apple” event, they showed face-to-face with dozens of children interested in programming through the Toady at Apple course to show how to use Swift language and iPad. Get started with programming.
Being an “ideal parent” still requires a lot of courage. In 2015, Dad quit his consulting job and became a “full-time dad.” In Vita’s life, for parent-child education, Dad’s experience and practices are actually worth learning for many parents.
For example, most of the problems about game addiction are because parents do n’t understand the game and do not guide their children to play good games. As a result, in the children ’s final addiction to fast food games, parents see the game as a beast. As an anime game enthusiast, Dad Zhou has been a console game player for many years, and he can easily distinguish the quality of the game. Even the nickname Vita was born because he and Sony’s PSV console were born one day.
The more fans you have for station B,The more they come, the question of whether they will cause pressure on themselves. Dad Zhou said that he is now more playing with Vita. They have no popular purpose, and it is not a consumption of small Vita to get fans, even if Vita will be in the future. To continue programming and follow the path of programmers, Dad Zhou also said that it still depends on Vita’s own wishes.
If you’re also a new parent and would like to guide your child’s learning into programming, try Apple’s completely redesigned “Everyone Can Program” course. After downloading Swift Playgrounds for free in the App Store, you can enter the world of programming through this app, learn programming interactively, and go further each day to create a real application.