I came across this paper on musical live coding in Scratch a while back:
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1734384
Seems like there are some good references in there to look through, but if
I remember correctly live performance was not explicitly a goal of the
instructional design they describe. Sam Aaron's paper on Sonic Pi
(mentioned in the Dagstuhl report) and Overtone has some preliminary
evaluation after using live coding in the classroom. These are just a
couple I can think of off the top of my head.
Gibber has been used by a company in the UK (
http://bitjam.org.uk/) to
teach music programming to teenagers in hacklabs. But again, the end goal
was not a performance, and it was also not for a full-length course. I
would love to hear about a class for kids like the one you're imagining!
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Mike Hodnick <mike.hodnick_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> Are any of you aware of an existing curriculum for teaching children (aged
> 12-13 years old) about live coding? I'm working with a local school on
> teaching some of their students about live coding. These students have some
> basic hands-on programming experience already. We're looking to have the
> students be able to demonstrate what they learn (ideas, concepts, hands-on
> application) as we build up to a final live coding performance.
>
> While I've been trying to generate some excitement about live coding here
> in the US and in my city, I never thought it would catch on with kids and
> schools first. I think this ties in perfectly with the ideas about live
> coding's impact on education, as outlined here:
> http://toplap.org/dagstuhl-seminar-report-collaboration-and-learning-through-live-coding/.
> However, I feel like I'm in over my head in this area. I do not have a
> formal background in pedagogy and would like to learn of any reference
> material for getting children exposed to live coding. Does anyone have any
> experience with this?
>
> -Mike
>
>
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