Article: EdSurge: Opinion – Best Development Challenge Ever? Teach Coding

EdSurge

05/14/13

Teaching kids to code is not a new phenomenon. As a fifth grader in 1992, I learned to program in school by blindly following photocopied tutorials and type-in programs on a 10-year-old PC. I attended a fairly diverse public magnet program in high school where every student had to take at least three years of daily programming classes. By the end of high school, I had a semester each of Logo and Hypercard, a semester of Pascal, a year of Fortran, a year of C, and a year of C++.

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