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Teaching Kids Programming - O'Reilly Radar
march 2009 by infovore
"I think there's a lesson here: doing something in hardware isn't automatically cool, particularly for kids. It's harder to make things happen, so we veteran geeks get a thrill from it. We think that because it's physical, real, and a Robot, kids will automatically be excited. But for kids who are learning, and who don't appreciate the significance of the challenge, it's just hard and unrewarding."
programming
computing
education
teaching
children
physicalcomputing
hardware
electronics
march 2009 by infovore
microserveces08
january 2008 by infovore
"Mommy, why is there a Server in the House?" A lovely book to explain the "stay-at-home server" to kids, snapped by the gang at Gizmodo. Well, it made me laugh
humour
computing
server
illustration
children
bookmarking
january 2008 by infovore
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