Abstract: Henrik will talk about his experience helping Swedish grade 8 students learn to program in Pyhton. The talk will cover the philosophy used and how the course was organized. It will also give tips for teachers, and details on what the students found easy and hard. About the speaker: Henrik Warne has been programming professionally for 25 years, and he still loves to code. He has worked on small embedded systems and large distributed systems, using a wide variety of technologies and programming languages. He is interested in all aspects of software engineering, from architecture, design and methodology to implementation, testing and debugging. He is currently a software engineer at TriOptima, developing systems for financial risk management.