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A comment on Ask HN: How Could Schools Teach Programming?.

Re:Ask HN: How Could Schools Teach Programming? by tfitzgerald on Friday February 18, 2011 @01:32PM (#2236604)
This depends, what grades are we talking about?

I worked in a K-8 school where the computer teacher used Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/) to teach programming in the lower grades.

What are the challenges you feel need to be overcome?

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Re:Ask HN: How Could Schools Teach Programming? by nbashaw on Friday February 18, 2011 @02:26PM (#2236844)
I think the biggest challenge is teacher knowledge. There just aren't many people in middle/high school classrooms that know anything about programming.

Scratch does look really cool for lower grades. I was more thinking of teaching actual production languages to high schoolers though.

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