Coding at a crossroads

Mitchel Resnick; Natalie Rusk

doi:10.1145/3375546

journal article Oct 22, 2020

Coding at a crossroads

Mitchel Resnick Natalie Rusk

Communications of the ACM Vol. 63 No. 11 pp. 120-127 · Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Abstract

While millions of students worldwide have enjoyed coding experiences over the last decade, the next challenge is spreading educational values and approaches.

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