A collection of resources
Let’s explore the universe of programming resources together
by Quincy Larson Let’s explore the universe of programming resources together There are a lot of free programming resources out there. Here’s a list of more than a thousand free programming books. Here’s a list of hundreds of free online university c...
Motivating Adult Learners by Introducing Programming Concepts with Scratch
Novice programmers usually fail to combine abstract concepts and knowledge into program design, even though they know the syntax and semantics of individual statement. Adult novice programmers with little computer background knowledge might face more ...
Teaching Programming for First-Year Data Science
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Scratch is a big deal
While none of us were paying attention, Scratch has transformed from a programming language for kids to a massive online community of self-guided, student-pr...
Why should children program - a review of Seymor Paperts Mindstorms
This is an essay about what it means to teach a kid to program, using Seymor Paperts groundbreaking book Mindstorms as a reference.
Learnable Programming
Here's a trick question: How do we get people to understand programming?
Computer code lessons at primary school
Lessons in computer programming will be adopted by the national curriculum for primary schools in England from September - but this is not a new concept for schools in Estonia.
Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers - Allison Kaptur
In early September I gave a keynote at Kiwi PyCon in New Zealand on effective learning for programmers. There were two pieces to the talk: one about …
Making Programming Visual, Spatial, and Learnable
What's wrong with linear, static programming mediums and how might we improve them?
Elements of Programming
After ten years in print, our publisher decided against further printings and reverted the rights to us. Elements of Programming is now available in two forms: a free PDF and a no-markup paperback.
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn about programming, or that programming is somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. Felleisen et al. give a nod to this trend in their book How to Design Programs, when they say "Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies." The Abtruse Goose comic also had their take.
