Can 11 Year Olds Learn to Program in 90 Minutes? Big Yes from Michael Madden @oceanpark

Summary

Yes, they can! Here is the proof: some programs that children wrote in Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/users/gsriada

Overview

Recently, I had the opportunity to spend some time introducing a group of 10-12 year olds to programming. This came at the end of a several weeks during which Martha Fahy had volunteered to teach the group about computer skills, including word processing, preparing presentations, using Excel, and underlying concepts such as operating systems, file systems, and so on.

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