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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 Intrepid+imaginaut · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Every language has its ups and downs. Javascript has the advantage that it bears some similarities to non-scripting languages and will produce instant results without getting too heavily into theory.

  2. Re:Mighty broad definition of "language" there by Darinbob · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This really doesn't sound like "computer science" when you read the description. Where are algorithms, data structures, computability, complexity theory, etc? Programming != computer science. Even if they really meant that they were teaching programming, teaching a fad language used at an application level (not same as high level language) is not really the best way to teach programming. And what does "drawing", "animation", and "user interaction" have to do with programming or computer science?

    Way to go Khan to dumb down computing even more than it already is.