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Celebrating 50 years of Kids Coding - Google

Celebrating 50 years of Kids Coding - Google | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
Today, during Computer Science Education Week, we celebrate 50 years since kids programming languages were first introduced to the world with a very special creation (and furry friend): our first ever coding Google Doodle! Today’s Doodle was developed through the close teamwork of not one or two but THREE teams: the Google Doodle team, Google Blockly team, and researchers from MIT Scratch!

To learn more about the history and importance of kids coding languages, we invited Champika Fernando, one of the project’s most passionate collaborators at MIT, to share her thoughts:
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Why today's Google Doodle might be its most fundamental ever

Why today's Google Doodle might be its most fundamental ever | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it

"Google Doodles are often challenging, fun and help illuminate the ideas and people that have changed the world. But today's homepage celebrates something even more fundamental than normal.

The Doodle centres on coding – helping children to learn the languages that power the site and its homepage itself. And it even lets people do some of that themselves, helping teach some coding basics.

It is just one of the various projects by Google and its competitors like Apple that is intended to allow children to code. And it's something the companies say is necessary not only for their own work but for the future of the world.

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