Unplugged Acivity - What is Computer Science

What do you want to be when you grow up Olivia? um, an astronaut

Do you happen to know what a computer programmer is?

yeah, um no. ummm, wait what?

I'm not really sure how to explain it
computer programming is pretty simple

it's a set of instructions like a recipe, you have to follow them

step-by-step to get the end result you want
computer science is

is that its a way to impact the world

they can be music videos you can be
games detect whether or not someone

related to someone else you can

you know find people's friends you can
do all sorts of other crazy things that

actually save lives

you do have to have a drive

great programming to me is

not that dissimilar to great art

when I finally learned a little bit of
programming that that blank wall

resolved into a bunch of doors

doors and you open them and of course
that the find

behind them is another hallway filled
with a bunch of doors

programming is fun and easy, you can do whatever

your mind wants to do finally you start
to open enough doors tthat the light comes in

and to me a finished program is like a
structured filled with light

all the corners are illuminated. the number of
people you can

you can touch and interact with is something the world has never seen before

are first lesson in this series is all about what

what computer science is what a computer
scientist does

and how you can be more responsible use of 
technology

very important lesson but it is a little
text heavy

but at the and you get to make your very
on customized encoding

using your next it's a fun activity and
it's very empowering

as binary is one other thing that feels
very technical

but once you understand it it's like you speak
a secret language