The Khan Academy Computing team posting what we've released, what we're working on, and what we learn as we go along.
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- Sophia Westwood, Khan Academy CS software engineering As we slowly ramp up content creation for Khan Academy Computer Science, I put together this list of design guidelines as a reference point …
Continue Reading about Our Design Guidelines for Teaching Programming Talkthroughs →
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We've been working on plugging the cognitive holes in our intro tutorial to programming, and realized we were missing a lesson on variable expressions. So far, we'd only been saving single values into …
Continue Reading about Variables Expressions (or How I Learned to Refactor a Penguin) →
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Thanks to the diligence and creativity of Sophia, we have two new coding talk-throughs explaining how to use strings and the text functions to write text to the canvas, resize it, and animate it. …
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We've re-worked our introductory section for the Programming tutorial to give a better introduction to programming generally, the programming environment on Khan Academy, and our programming …
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At the office today, we got a visit from Stanford professor Stephen Cooper, who's most well known for his work on the Alice project. Alice was developed to teach programming in a novice-friendly way, …
Continue Reading about Teaching Novice Programming: Learning from Alice →
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We love finding out when teachers are using the Khan Academy CS platform in new and creative ways. Bryan Harms decided to come up with his own supplementary programming challenges for his 8th grade …
Continue Reading about Teaching CS? Make Custom Challenges →
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