Teaching Programming Now Emphasizes Sharing

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 10, 2011 @04:11AM from the did-you-bring-enough-for-everyone-to-steal? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The NY Times explores some of the best ways to teach kids and finds that some of the new tools are encouraging the kids to share their work with each other. One teacher first tried to keep the kids quiet and staring at their own monitors but found it was better to let them copy each other. He calls MIT's Scratch a 'gateway' tool. Then the article points out that programming Blender with Python is not as hard to pick up as your grandparent's programming languages — and kids today are learning them in a few months." The Wikipedia entry on Scratch is worth reading, too.

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Re:FTFA: Not sharing so much as building together by elrous0 · 2011-11-10 04:50 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Whats wrong with $4/hour if the living expenses are proportionately lower?
Well, nothing if you don't mind living in a city with an open sewer running down the street.

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