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The 14-level tutorial was created for the third annual "Hour of Code," a campaign that seeks to get educators and young people interested in coding. It takes place this year during the week of Dec ...
New coding-for-kids lessons timed to computer science week, companies tell USA TODAY.
It wasn’t so long ago that computer programming seemed the domain of a certain type—the introverted loner toiling away in darkened basements, perhaps with breaks to watch Xena reruns. The rest ...
The tutorial, which is available now for free, walks students through 14 levels. It looks and feels like the Minecraft game that kids are so familiar with, but they have to use basic computer ...
As a “self-proclaimed Imagineer," YouTuber Estefannie’s channel looks a lot different than the makeup and food tutorials you might see on your feed. In place of face contouring videos and ...
Education Successful ‘Hour of Code’ computer tutorials prompts effort to change school policies January 14, 2014 ...
IT-consutling firm Accenture is bringing its Hour of Code coding tutorial into 15 languages for Computer Science Education Week. Accenture produced a tutorial on artificial intelligence in ...
"So most programs that introduce coding in fourth grade and up, it's great, but they are coming kind of late to the party," she says. The project was funded by a $1.3 million grant from the ...
The drag-and-drop coding apps and tutorials that many K-12 schools use to teach students the beginnings of code may be entertaining, but they don't mimic the work real computer scientists do ...