Love the “Low floors and high ceilings” concept from at #StructuredConf22 - giving people low barriers to entry and lots of room to grow and experiment. Building that space can be harder than it looks!
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This was one of my favorite quotes as well!
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Struggling to find the OG source of it. But I’m 90% sure I heard it in one of Alan Kay’s talks. Almost every great computing quote leads back to him 😄
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+1 on how Alan Kay envisioned the future of computing 😄
I think that this one is also mentioned by Seymour Papert and expanded by Mitchel Resnick with the concept of 'wide walls' mentioning how to support different ways to go from 'floors' to 'ceilings'
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Ah of course was Paypert! Nice, thanks for finding the reference link. I’d heard it related to MITs scratch language so makes sense it’s originally from him
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