"Learning to Code or Be Programmed" Great resources and fun
Reshared post from +Eric Martindale
Making the case for a mass-algorate society, in which we all know how to write code. I wholeheartedly agree.
Some resources:
Learning to Code
– Codecademy: https://www.codecademy.com/
– Stanford's Online CS101 course with in-browser Javascript exercises: https://www.stanford.edu/class/cs101/
– Learn You a Haskell: https://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters
– Project Euler: https://projecteuler.net/Media
– +Douglas Rushkoff's Program or Be Programmed: Program or Be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff
– +Daniel Shiffman on Artful Programming: https://vimeo.com/16140257
– +John Graham-Cumming on Teaching Our Kids to Code: https://blog.jgc.org/2011/09/teach-our-kids-to-code.html
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Why we should teach our kids to code
There's a petition up on the British Government's e-petitions website, called "teach our kids to code". Despite being plugged by geek luminaries like Ben Goldacre, it's received barely a thousand sign…
oops +Amir Esmann I meant Small Basic
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx
Kids can try MS SImple Basic these days to get started IMO