The earliest actual route I could find saved on gmaps-pedometer is #87. All the earlier saved routes seem to be the map of the entire U.S.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=0000087

It depicts a 5-mile course in two concentric loops near the Hudson River banks of Hoboken, N.J.

I like your work, by the way.

What I learned from this experience was the following: you are likely to either over- or underestimate your audience’s ability to follow what you’re doing. I would try to either a) gather some information about the kids’ level of knowledge beforehand, or b) don’t plan out the curriculum too far in advance. Plan a couple of initial exercises and be prepared to adjust up or down accordingly. I didn’t get to do this, because I was only there for one hour.

I’d try to emphasize design patterns, and then back that up with specific coding examples. I wouldn’t suggest it as a text (it’s the size of a telephone book) but _The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites_ is a pretty good pattern language book for web design, written by some chief muckety-mucks from Google, Yahoo, etc. You might try to teach them the Cliff’s Notes version of that.

One thing I’d want to get across is that what a page looks like is maybe half or less of what web design is.

And no WYSIWYG. Make them write code.

I like working from home, because I do have the discipline but it also allows me the freedom to get together with Andrew or whoever whenever I need to. I like focus and the quiet time. I;m actually really fond of having alone time — we have two cats and a dog so that helps a lot in terms of not feeling lonely. I also take breaks to clean bikes or take a ride or go shoot photos so I consider them my sanity-checkers.

Your mileage may vary indeed.