Back in the 80’s I started programming on the Commodore VIC-20. Playing games, but also programming.
But in 2010, how can you make high schoolers enthousiastic about programming? What’s a nice programming environment for high school students? Maybe just a browser and simple text editor? Yes, with HTML5 you can create nice small programs, for example games.
With this in mind I created a HTML5 Game Jam Workshop, a workshop for highschool students to learn the basics of HTML.
And last week I had my first try out, a high school in Zutphen, the Netherlands. Everything went very well and the children were very enthousiastic! Some of them had already experience with HTML and javascript. But there were also a few without any experience, but at the end of the afternoon they hacked a small game!!
