akfs

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   by akfs 8y ago

   I'm curious what others think of his observation. Is he right? Are we potentially turning off a lot of kids from engineering by focusing on these "top concepts" versus more computation like thinking projects?
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   by akfs 8y ago

   "But when they do learn about “programming”, say in high school, what do they actually learn? There’s usually a lot of syntactic detail, but the top concepts tend to be conditionals, loops and variables. As someone who’s spent most of
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   Wolfram on teaching kids “coding” vs. “computational thinking”(blog.stephenwolfram.com)

   5 points by akfs 8y ago|3 comments