CODE!

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CODE!

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A short presentation I'm giving to the 4th graders at May Howard Elementary before introducing them to Hackety Hack.

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What’s Code?

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It’s words that tell a computer what to do.

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But, humans can read it too!

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Code looks something like this:

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class Dog attr_accessor :color, :size def bark “woof!” end end

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I’ll show you how that works later… remind me.

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What’s it like coding all the time?

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FUN!

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What’s The Web?

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Billions of computers listening for requests.

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And responding with… responses!

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How it works

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How It Works• Your computer makes a request to an address -

http://amazon.com

• A thing called a DNS server says “Hey, that’s this computer” and your computer sends that computer a request.

• That computer gets the request and answers it.

• Just like a game of telephone.

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And it all works because of…

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CODE!

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Are you ready to write some?!

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ME TOO!