We Can Code It

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. We Can Code It
Tasneem Raja, Mother Jones, June 22, 2014
Intelligent and literate article on computer literacy and learning to program. The focus is on encouraging girls and minorities to join the crowd, but the real strength of this article is in the first half where the author describes the sort of literacy enabled by learning to program. It leads off with Boston's adoptahydrant.org, and then lists off some examples of digital literacy: sorting, abstraction, iteration, parallel processing. More...