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Re:On the Usability of Codecademy by chrismanfrank on Monday January 16, 2012 @02:10PM (#3471976)
I'm really curious to know if anyone has experience with this. On the one hand, kids like building games, so Scratch and Alice seem like a good idea. On the other hand, those aren't "real" languages, so I think...why not just teach kids how to actually write code? I'm suspicious of how we dumb things down for kids. Anyone have experience teaching kids to code, either with Scratch/Alice, or another language?
Re:On the Usability of Codecademy by edtechdev on Monday January 16, 2012 @03:07PM (#3472205)
yeah there's like a whole field of research and a profession devoted to the topic: computer science education