We've added a whole tutorial on functions, complete with five talk-throughs and three challenges. The tutorial covers defining custom functions, passing parameters to them, returning values, variable …
Challenges: 56,000 completions in our first month!
“...this. is. AWESOME!!!!! I love you guys. This is so fun, I probably won't get any sleep tonight.” - Dallas In just our first month, just over 14,000 students have completed a Khan Academy coding …
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Disabling Copy/Paste == Increasing Learning?
In our coding challenges, we present a "hint" for each steps, which is a bit of code with blanks, and it's up to them to figure out where that code fits in the current program and what will go in the …
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New Entrepreneurship Interview Series
Ever wonder how Richard Branson got started? Turns out he used the profits from his student magazine to fund an unknown rock ‘n’ roll album: This is just one interview of many from the new Khan …
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New animation challenges
We now have challenges for our three talk-throughs on animation. Animation challenges are harder, because the student often has to restart to see their changes, and conceptually, they have to …
Kids Coding Classes in the Bay Area
When I was in high school, I got my first taste of how much fun it is to teach coding by being a counselor at a computer camp. Back then, a "computer camp" was a rare beast, but now, there are more …
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