Posted Sep. 17, 2012 at 6:00 a.m.
Students watch their classmates’ presentations during an “Adventures in ALICE Programming” workshop. (Photo by Megan Morr)
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Durham, N.C. — Alice, Scratch and Lua-based platforms help make programming more prevalent among elementary and middle school students and teach them problem-solving skills that translate to other languages such as Python, Java, Ruby and C++, says Brook Osborne, director of outreach at Duke University's department of computer science....
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Students watch their classmates’ presentations during an “Adventures in ALICE Programming” workshop. (Photo by Megan Morr)
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Durham, N.C. — Alice, Scratch and Lua-based platforms help make programming more prevalent among elementary and middle school students and teach them problem-solving skills that translate to other languages such as Python, Java, Ruby and C++, says Brook Osborne, director of outreach at Duke University's department of computer science....
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