[jjacobson]

I should write up my notes from talking to them. I explained that programming was like speaking a language computers understood and used Spanish and English as examples.

I defined code as the words computers understand.

I defined a program as a story made up of code that a computer knows how to read.

A couple of the great questions I got were "Do you like your job?" and "Do you like typing all day?"

[wodenokoto]

Did any of them get the Super Mario reference? Why didn't you go with something more current as your theme?

[jjacobson]

I wanted to leverage the parallax scrolling background with Reveal and make it fun.

And as soon as I plugged in the projector the entire classroom erupted with shouts of "Mario!!!!"

[wodenokoto]

That's great! I actually didn't expect them to recognize the 8bit graphics.

What really prompted me to ask was the "The princess is in another castle" reference at the end.

[ktsmith]

Being around 7-8 year olds pretty frequently, and having a 5 year old myself, I would have been surprised if they didn't recognize it and get excited.