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Children Should Learn Programming Along With Reading and Writing

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Karl

Boing Boing posts a TEDx talk from Mitch Resnick, of the MIT Media Lab, and creator of Scratch, and a good discussion ensued: “Kids should learn programming as well as reading and writing”. Make sure to watch the talk as … Continue reading →

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New Book: “Super Scratch Programming Adventure!”

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Karl

I recently read about no starch press’s “Super Scratch Programming Adventure!” from a post at boingboing and had to purchase a copy. The book looks as terrific in person as it does in the discussion at boingboing. My daughter was … Continue reading →

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It’s more than just Dart – recent language development: on coding

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Karl

Michael Fogus reviews the astonishing (to the unfamiliar) number or new programming languages being developed these past 5 years from Scratch to CoffeeScript, to Dart, it is quite a list.

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New Version of Sikuli released

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Karl

MIT’s Project Sikuli has released a new version with some IDE and API improvements. Sikuli, along with Scatch open up programming in innovative and fun ways.

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Four Videos on Changing Our Notions About Education

Posted on July 18, 2009 by Karl

Dr. Tae: “Building A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning”: TED.com: “Dave Eggers’ wish: Once Upon A School” TED.com: “Alan Kay shares a powerful idea about ideas”: TED.com: “Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity”: Metafilter Thread: Scratch, a beginner’s programming … Continue reading →

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IllustrativeProgramming

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Karl

Martin Fowler coins a useful term: “Illustrative Programming”: languages that “fuse the execution of the program together with its definition”. “Illustrative programming requires information from the actual running of the program.” He uses Excel as an example. I think MIT’s … Continue reading →

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Scratch is fun

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Karl

Emma and me played around with Scratch the other day. It really does live up to its billing as a Lego-like environment to write programs in (especially where simple animations are concerned). You might think that introducing a 3 year … Continue reading →

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