Stephen Howell — Teaching kids to program using Scratch and the Kinect

Extract lifted directly from This talk will show how anybody, especially kids and non-programmers, can design and develop games and interactive media applications for the Microsoft Kinect controller. Focusing on making programming interesting by teaching Kinect game creation with the Scratch language, this talk should be of interest to educators, non-programmers and the those who need an excuse to jump around in the name of education and art. Stephen is a computer science le