Teaching Programming Now Emphasizes Sharing

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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 &mdash; and kids today are learning them in a few months." The Wikipedia entry on Scratch is worth reading, too.
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