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Al Sweigart: “Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program”
Author of “Invent with Python”, Al Sweigart, makes the case for teaching programming skills while enabling children to accomplish something, like making a game, not as an end in and of itself, in “Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program”. … Continue reading
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