Connected Code: Why Children Need to Learn Programming

by Yasmin B. Kafai and Quinn Burke

Book Overview

Why every child needs to learn to code: the shift from "computational thinking" to computational participation.

Coding, once considered an arcane craft practiced by solitary techies, is now recognized by educators and theorists as a crucial skill, even a new literacy, for all children. Programming is often promoted in K-12 schools as a way to encourage "computational thinking"--which has now become the umbrella term for understanding what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026252967X
• ISBN13: 9780262529679
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher