On: Teaching Ruby to High School Girls

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I had similar success teaching Shoes to fourth & fifth graders in a series of 3 1-hour lessons. I liked Sarah Mei's lesson even better, but for another datapoint, here's my report: http://teachingkids.railsbridge.org/2009/07/20/fifth-grade-s...

I think kids find programming more natural than adults do. They are used to learning many strange and arbitrary rules :)