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June 13, 2011 06:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vD8arcNoEJs/Ubiquitous-Computing-Gadget-To-Teach-Coding
Ubiquitous Computing Gadget To Teach Coding
An anonymous reader writes "A distance learning university in the UK has revamped its IT curriculum to attract more students — the biggest change is that budding coders will get a chunk of hardware which plugs into a computer via USB and can be programmed using a language called Sense — based on MIT's Scratch 'drag and drop' programming language. The university hopes this gadget-based approach will encourage fewer students to give up on their studies."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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