Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Peer evaluations for coding projects on Khan Academy

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In our programming courses on Khan Academy, we have two ways that students practice what they've learnt:   challenges and projects . ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Lowering the barriers to learning programming

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At Velocity 2014 , I gave a talk to the attendees, a room full of web developers and backend ops, about why we need to lower the barriers to...
Monday, June 23, 2014

CS4HS @ Cal: Meeting CS high school teachers in person!

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This past Friday, on June 20th, I was invited and honored to stop by CS4HS @ Cal , a gathering of local high school Computer Science teacher...
Monday, May 12, 2014

New advanced JS course: Learn to program natural simulations!

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Last fall, I discovered natureofcode.com : an online and print book about programming natural simulations using the Java version of Processi...
Monday, April 21, 2014

New case study: Going beyond our curriculum with cryptography, technology news, and games

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We've added a new case study to our coach resources, highlighting Jenny Oliver's classroom in Thailand. She's a software enginee...
Monday, April 14, 2014

New teacher tool: class progress viewer!

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Want to get a general idea of how your class is progressing through our Intro to JS course ? How many challenges have most students gone thr...
Monday, April 7, 2014

CoderDojo JS workshop for girls: Great success!

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CoderDojo is a network of clubs around the world that hold coding workshops for kids, and they teach a wide variety of topics, dependi...