First I need to apologize for being away for a week! I brought a yucky cold home from my travels, and then used the long Thanksgiving weekend to rest and recover. Much better now!
So here’s a link to the KPL paper, permanently part now of the ACM Read More...
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on Wed, Nov 29 2006
Filed under: Kid's Programming Language, KPL, education technology, Education
Coding4Fun, Microsoft’s self-describing hobbyist programmer site, has just put up a major redesign, which looks like it’s based on Vista marketing.
They also re-issued a bunch of past articles in their Coding4Fun blog, including the set of Read More...
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on Sat, Nov 4 2006
Filed under: Game Programming, Kid's Programming Language, KPL, User Created
The interface column article is by Tricia Duryee, and is at this link.
Tricia condensed our information into a really accurate, cogent and compelling summary. Thank you, Tricia, and thank you Jeff Fishburn for introducing us!
What: The Phrogram Company Read More...
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on Mon, Oct 30 2006
Filed under: Game Programming, Phrogram, KPL, computer science, education technology, User Created
That’s a big question, and there are other examples, but I want to talk about it from my own experience of this issue over the last year: Why are people outside the US picking up KPL and Phrogram more quickly?
la Univeritad ICESI in Cali, Columbia Read More...
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on Wed, Oct 4 2006
Filed under: Phrogram, Kid's Programming Language, KPL, education technology, Education, computer graphics
If you’re not convinced yet check this out.
So a week ago I blogged about David Brin’s “Why Johnny Can’t Code” essay at Salon.com:
Hello? David Brin? Are you out there?
Click and check it out my blog entry, mainly because David Read More...
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on Tue, Sep 26 2006
Filed under: Phrogram, Kid's Programming Language, KPL, computer science, Education, Blogs and Blogging