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Khan Academy Launches Computer Science Curriculum

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Re:Mighty broad definition of "language" there by grumbel · · Score: 4, Informative

    JavaScript can be an ugly language to work with, but the interactive editor they have looks really good and nicely works around all the issue one frequently runs into when using raw JavaScript (catches missing semicolon, catches typos of function names, allows editing color values via GUI, automatically runs the code on each change, etc.).