Is there a link to this Karel the Robot exercise or is it a hand out?
We're in the amidst of creating something complimentary (different too) to Codecademy called http://CodePupil.com. We're eager to see different styles of teaching; especially examples where gaming is used!
As noted in the OP's article creating a new experience and especially one that teaches all the Elizabeth's how to code is a big challenge. We've been asking our friends like Elizabeths to test and then we reiterate. Also we've found Mechanical Turk to be helpful in re: to user testing feedback. There seems to be a lot of Liz's there.
I highly recommend you check out all the exercise for the Stanford course: http://see.stanford.edu/see/materials/icspmcs106a/assignment... (the ones at the bottom, not the top). The reason the class was so much fun was because we got to make Breakout, Hangman, Yahtzee, and ended by creating a simple version of Facebook.
The application would have access to see your email address i.e. <paul's-id>@gmail.com
The app uses it to send a welcome message to users.
Unfortunately that's the default minimum permission set granted by App Engine Users API. Further, I promise not to be evil:
iheartpy.com/privacy.txt
Feel free to write to me for any feedback and/ or help.
We're in the amidst of creating something complimentary (different too) to Codecademy called http://CodePupil.com. We're eager to see different styles of teaching; especially examples where gaming is used!
As noted in the OP's article creating a new experience and especially one that teaches all the Elizabeth's how to code is a big challenge. We've been asking our friends like Elizabeths to test and then we reiterate. Also we've found Mechanical Turk to be helpful in re: to user testing feedback. There seems to be a lot of Liz's there.