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Khan Academy Launches Computer Science Curriculum

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @08:48AM from the make-with-the-learning dept.

joabj writes "Expanding beyond math and the physical sciences, Khan Academy has added a set of computer science courses to its popular collection of learn-at-home instructional videos. For the project, Khan tapped jQuery creator John Resig, who chose JavaScript as the first language to teach students. The initial set of tutorials cover drawing, programming basics, animation and user interaction."

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Re:Mighty broad definition of "language" there by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-14 08:57 · Score: 3, Funny

Khaaannnnnnnnnnn
Re:Mighty broad definition of "language" there by timeOday · 2012-08-14 09:05 · Score: 4, Funny

Heh, I noticed that too.
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Real Programmers must spend their first year writing Pascal code to create hypothetical schedules for students at a university, followed by implementing every data type in a fat textbook from "Associative Array" to "Weight-Balanced Tree." Second year, the same thing - in Scheme. Final year, same thing - in assembler - and with runtime complexity proofs.
Congratulations, the both of you remaining are done.
What is this? Use of libraries? Graphics? User interaction? Heresy I say!