In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Steve Krouse about val.town, what it is, his philosophies on teaching people to code, the tech stack for val.town, and the benefits of inspiring kids to learn to code.

Show Notes

00:36 Welcome
01:27 Who is Steve Krouse?
Steve Krouse
Future of Coding
stevekrouse (Steve Krouse) · GitHub
Steve Krouse (@stevekrouse) on Twitter
Coding Classes for Kids & Teens | Coding for Kids | The Coding Space
03:06 What is Val.town?
Val Town
08:35 Where did the inspiration for social dev environments come from?
12:52 WYSIWYG code vs being code first
16:30 How does val.town inspire people?
20:26 How do you prevent people abusing val.town?
24:57 What’s the UI story for snippets on val.town?
27:31 Do you plan to support express?
29:03 What’s the tech stack behind the front end of val.town?
30:35 What’s the tech stack for the back end of val.town?
34:37 How do you measure for pricing?
37:07 Who is using val.town?
42:00 What’s your methodology for teaching kids to code?
47:44 Supper Club questions
GitHub - pomdtr/sunbeam: Generate powerful TUIs from simple scripts written in any language.
Deno — A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
A Small Matter of Programming
The Unison language
CodeMirror
A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing
Stripe Press — Ideas for progress
pomdtr/sunbeam: Generate powerful TUIs from simple scripts written in any language.
Seymour Papert
woofjs.com
Bret Victor
Welcome | Future of Coding
Tom MacWright (@tmcw)
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