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2017-12-15 08:41:27     Code like a Weaver – Code Like A Girl

https://code.likeagirl.io/code-like-a-weaver-64e699d9a022

My mom’s never written a line of software in her life,... how to program. She taught me arithmetic and fractions t... structures through laundry, and programming and algorith... Does that sound crazy? Let me explain.

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2017-12-11 14:05:24     Stanford CS department updates introductory courses: Java is Gone | Computing Education Blog

https://computinged.wordpress.com/...urses-java-is-gone/?...

Stanford has decided to move away from Java in their int... Surprisingly, they have decided to move to JavaScript. ®.. that most top CS departments are moving to Python.  The... article linked below doesn’t address any other languag...
The SIGCSE-

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2016-04-18 12:53:27     Context Free Art:About - Context Free Art

http://www.contextfreeart.org/medi.../Context_Free_Art:About

Chris Coyne created a small language for design grammars... grammars are sets of non-deterministic rules to produce ... are surprisingly beautiful, often from very simple grammars.

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2016-04-05 14:56:46    

https://medium.com/...een-remixing-learning-c1df54c302df#...

With more than 10 million users, the Scratch online community is the largest online community where kids learn to program. Since it was created, a central goal of the community has been to promote “remixing” — the reworking and re...

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2015-10-29 22:11:07     BPS Research Digest: The surprising truth about which personality traits do and don't correlate with computer programming skills

http://digest.bps.org.uk/...ising-truth-about-which.html#...

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2015-05-10 12:21:05     The First Woman to Earn a PhD in Computer Science Was a Nun | Mental Floss UK

http://mentalfloss.com/...-earn-phd-computer-science-was-nun

In the 1960s, Sister Keller studied at the University of... also studied at Purdue, the University of Michigan, and ... Dartmouth relaxed the rule barring women from its comput... allowed Keller to help develop the computer language BAS...
Keller’s

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2015-03-23 10:29:00     Stanford’s first interdisciplinary humanities + CS class met with success | Stanford Daily

http://www.stanforddaily.com/...d-cs-class-met-with-success/

Stanford’s first interdisciplinary computer science an... has left both students and teachers hungry for more.

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2014-12-30 10:29:25     Future of Work: Why Teaching Everyone to Code Is Delusional | Singularity HUB

http://singularityhub.com/...everyone-to-code-is-delusional/

You need to teach people to know themselves and how to m... integrity of themselves on all levels, you need to teach... about thinking, how to collect, filter, collate, process... massive knowledge resources that they will have given to... and how to

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2014-01-04 18:06:46     Lyndsey Scott, A Model And Coder - Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/...ott-model-and-coder-2014-1

As much as we try to fight it, most people have a very s... come to mind when they think of coders and software entr... unshaven, twenty-something males.
Lyndsey Scott is none of those things. Though passionate ...
Despite her success on the runway, Lyn

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2013-12-10 15:03:28     Naace: ICT in Education is important!

http://www.naace.co.uk/resources/1068

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2013-12-10 15:02:37     Children to be taught to use internet at school - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...to-use-internet-at-school.html

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2013-12-10 15:01:25     UK School Children Will Soon Learn Coding and Use 3D Printers

http://thenextweb.com/...ew-school-curriculum-proposals/#...

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2013-03-09 16:47:04     BBC News - EU Commission launches 'grand coalition' to tackle IT shortage

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21668166

The European Commission has launched a "grand coalition"... region's IT skills shortages.

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2013-01-30 12:52:39     BBC News - Computer science part of English Baccalaureate

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21261442

Computer science is going to become part of the English ... of the measures used in school league tables in England.
It will be included as one of the science options that c ...

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2012-11-17 08:08:54     Liberator: the untold story of the first British laptop part one • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/...rst_british_laptop_part_one/

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2012-11-09 17:33:39     Informatics Europe - Reports

http://informatics-europe.org/services/reports.html

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2012-10-05 07:26:38     Stephen Wolfram Blog : Kids, Arduinos and Quadricopters

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/...rduinos-and-quadricopters/

I don’t think my talk was particularly good. But then ... onto the stage, and soon was typing raw Mathematica code... everyone—with me now safely off on the side (where I s... picture):
Christopher Wolfram on stage at Maker Faire

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2012-08-16 07:13:45     BBC News - Women and tech: Why don't girls want to be geeks?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18687247#?utm_source=t...

This image problem starts at school, according to one te...
"Girls don't see IT as creative. It is that image of the ...
Gender differences become apparent during IT lessons, ev ...

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2012-07-25 09:51:51     I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. - Kyle Wiens - Harvard Business Review

http://blogs.hbr.org/.../i_wont_hire_people_who_use_poo.html

In the same vein, programmers who pay attention to how t... written language also tend to pay a lot more attention t... You see, at its core, code is prose. Great programmers a... code monkeys; according to Stanford programming legend D...
And just li

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2012-06-05 19:53:05     Researcher reveals how “Computer Geeks” replaced “Computer Girls” | The Clayman Institute for Gender Research

http://gender.stanford.edu/...E2%80%9Ccomputergirls%E2%80%9D

Asked to picture a computer programmer, most of us descr... computer geek, a brilliant but socially-awkward male. We... largely noctural creature, passing sleepless nights writ... According to workplace researchers, this stereotype of t...
It may be s

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2012-05-29 23:39:12     MaKey MaKey: An Invention Kit for Everyone by Jay Silver — Kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/...-an-invention-kit-for-everyone

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2012-05-29 18:43:42     Computer Science Unplugged |

http://csunplugged.org/

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2012-05-29 17:09:04     Course | Apps for Good

http://appsforgood.org/course/

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2012-05-29 17:09:00     Apps for Good Host Facebook 'Show and Tell' Event

http://thenextweb.com/...ir-facebook-development-skills/?...

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2012-04-10 11:26:45     Britain's economy will thrive if computing becomes child's play | Eric Schmidt | Comment is free | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...-improve-computer-education?...

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2012-04-10 11:16:12     Undergrad Computer Science Enrollments Rise for Fourth Straight Year — CRA Taulbee Report

http://www.cra.org/...urth-straight-year-cra-taulbee-report/

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2012-04-04 13:48:28     0x10 ͨ

http://0x10c.com/

In a parallel universe where the space race never ended,...
In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compa ...
It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first ...
Game Features
... re programatically advanced of you can get a head star

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2012-04-04 13:48:28     0x10 ͨ

http://0x10c.com/

In a parallel universe where the space race never ended,...
In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compa ...
It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first ...
Game Features
... re programatically advanced of you can get a head star

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2012-04-01 14:25:19     The Raspberry Pi can help schools get with the program | Technology | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...pi-schools-computer-science?...

Two interesting things happened last week and neither ha... with social networking or privacy. First, a web server f... new in that, you say; happens all the time. Yes, but thi... web server: it was the machine that hosts the Raspberry ...
The second

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2012-04-01 14:21:24     Young coders: ideas for change | Education | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...ung-coders-ideas-for-change?...

Young coders: ideas for change
Seven teenagers talk about how they got into coding and ...

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