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Join the global ‘Hour of Code’ in December

Tech Zulu Event

The non-profit, Code.org is partnering with Computer Science Education week to lead a massive effort to raise awareness around computer science education this December. As of this posting, they have signed up nearly 3 Million students to learn to code for at least one hour in December.

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How to Teach Computational Thinking

Xconomy

Whether it’s sensor-based medicine, computational contracts, education analytics, or computational agriculture—success is going to rely on being able to do computational thinking well. So now the question is how to educate kids about it. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers, whatever. I’ve noticed an interesting trend.