Tag: links, video, education
Video by code.org.
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Yes.
This is more of a promotional video than a how-to guide, but I agree with
all of it. Imagine if we let people drive without teaching them what the
roadsigns meant, or having a library in a school without teaching the
students how to look things up. And yet, this is exactly what we do with
computers - incredibly powerful, no training. And computers are way more
important than cars.
(Also, background, I am admittedly a sunday hacker at programming right now,
but do practice on a very regular basis in writing wikipedia code, which is
an excellent place to start if you've never done it before.)
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9 min version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU1xS07N-FA
5 min version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiIfCTPveos
