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Practicing What We Preach: My Journey as a Curriculum Developer at Saturday Kids

The idea that you could make a living teaching children to talk to computers sounded laughable a couple of decades ago. But that's exactly what I've been doing for the past 2.5 years.

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Going Back to Basics: What Kids Learn through Programming with Python

Most programming courses usually stop at teaching kids how to write code in a certain language. But our introductory Python course goes a step further by introducing computational thinking concepts and the context in which kids learn them. Beyond Python programming, kids learn about the possibilities and applications of Python in the real world.

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How we designed Code Meets World collaboratively and completely remotely

We were about to start designing Code Meets World when COVID-19 blew up, and the product design process shifted online by necessity. Here's how we did it, and some takeaways from our experience.

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