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Programming Introduction for Primary School with ScratchJr, Pico Projector and Google Chromecast

Invitation I was lucky that my daughter asked me whether I would answer all the questions of her classmates - most of them are nine years old - about my profession. They had "professions" as the topic of their general knowledge lesson. So my daughter told me that they invited teacher, school caretaker, stewardess, nurse and also me software developer. Her classmates and she would ask the invited person some questions. I directly said yes because I think that the new generation needs to be introduced in software stuff especially that the current professions will change a lot in the near future. Reuters had a very interesting article about how Robots and Artificial Intellegence will cost five millions jobs by 2020 . In my opinion software development will be much more important by 2020, so this is my chance to introduce my profession to the kids in my daughter's class. Preparation In my preparation I thought that I need to show them something cool so I began to goog