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15 Colleges Revamping Computer Sci Programs To Appeal to Women and Minorities — Campus Technology
By Dian Schaffhauser10/14/14 An organization that runs programs to advance women in computing and a college that has seen success in its own efforts to woo non-traditional students to computing has launched a new program intended to help 15 American … Continue reading
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Teaching computer science — without touching a computer | The Hechinger Report
ByAnnie Murphy Paul A group of children on a playground, each kid clutching a slip of paper with a number on it, moves along a line drawn in chalk, comparing numbers as they go and sorting themselves into ascending order … Continue reading
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Hack ‘n’ Slash
INTRODUCING HACK ‘N’ SLASH Howdy! I’m Brandon Dillon, the project lead on Hack ‘n’ Slash, Double Fine’s upcoming puzzle adventure game about hacking and reverse engineering. When I was a kid, I watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on betamax over … Continue reading
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Three Video Games That Teach Programming Through Play | MindShift
August 27, 2014 By Tanner Higgin, Graphite The push to get kids to code has been such a hot topic these past few years you might be sick of hearing about it. There are those that see code as a … Continue reading
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Online Code Editor – Codeanywhere
Codeanywhere is cloud based code editor that enables users to develop, maintain and collaborate on their web sites and application from any device, anywhere in the world.At Codeanywhere people keep up with their projects, edit their web sites and the … Continue reading
LearnToMod | Minecraft Modding For Kids – LearnToMod
LearnToMod teaches you how to code by teaching you how to mod Minecraft. It gives you two different ways to code: with blocks or with Javascript. Learn To Mod from Stephen Foster on Vimeo. via LearnToMod | Minecraft Modding For … Continue reading
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Year of Code
Year of Code is an independent, non-profit campaign to encourage people across the country to get coding for the first time in 2014. Through code people can discover the power of computer science, changing the way they think about, and … Continue reading
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p5.js
Hello! p5.js is a JavaScript library that starts with the original goal of Processing, to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators, and beginners, and reinterprets this for today’s web.Using the original metaphor of a software sketchbook, p5.js has a … Continue reading
teach yourself to code
Four years ago, a friend lent me his Rails book and I took it with me on a family vacation and learned Rails. I was happy to discover that programming itself was fun, but also realized it was power. Anything … Continue reading
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Adventures of Karel the Robot | NClab
This self-paced online visual programming course for beginners tells a story about the friendship of a little girl and a robot. It is being taught at K-12 schools, programming clubs, after-school programs, and in home-schooling families. The teacher or homeschooling … Continue reading
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