'Learnable Programming' was a critique of 1) Khan Academy's newly released intro course on programming, 2) the Processing language the course focused on, and 3) decades of stagnation in programming pedagogy. This review is cross-posted from my personal site: Computers As Objects To Think With Bret Victor wrote an essay in 2012 that left me desperately wishing I were a computer engineer. He also shows that schools saturated with technology can actually improve socialization and interaction among students and between students and teachers.more

Papert argues that children are more than capable of mastering computers, and that teaching computational processes like de-bugging in the classroom can change the way we learn everything else. In this book, pioneering computer scientist Seymour Papert uses the invention of LOGO, the first child-friendly programming language, to make the case for the value of teaching children with computers. Papert argues that children are more than capable of mastering computers, Computers have completely changed the way we teach children.

Computers have completely changed the way we teach children.

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