An extremely common request amongst students was for the addition of programming-themed avatars! All students can change their personal avatar in their profile. Until now the only avatars available …
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The Many Ways to Write a For Loop
For our loops curriculum, we start off with introducing while loops, because of their more intuitive form. We then introduce for loops in a talk-through where we describe them as a shortcut syntax for …
Khan Academy launches new college prep initiative
There is a big issue in the education system today. Two out of every three students are not prepared for college level math courses and over half of all 4-year college students do not graduate within …
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A Million Hours of Code
On Dec. 8th, we kicked off our Hour of Code campaign with Code.org, with the goal of teaching more students to code. Since then, over 1 million students have come to Khan Academy to try out our Hour …
New Year, New Documentation
We're starting off the New Year with another overhaul of our documentation, and we're pretty excited about it. Here's a round-up of the major improvements that we've made based on the feedback from …
Newbie Syntax Blindness
For the very first step of the very first challenge that learners do in our programming curriculum, they are given one instruction: type a piece of code exactly as it's displayed. The displayed code …