Smart Google Doodle puts coding in everyone’s hands

Coding is for everyone.

The idea of stringing together commands to make a program is daunting prospect for most, but that’s because many have never seen visual programming tools. Until now.

Monday’s Google Doodle puts a super-easy visual programming tool on the search page and gently guides even the most programming-averse among us with straightforward and kind of cute tutorials.

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Google’s Programming for non-programmers” effort is part of Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 4-10), which is held in honor of  Admiral Grace Murray Hopper and is designed to get everyone, but especially students, to try just an hour of code. And, yes, Code.org created an Hour of Code program that helps coordinate many of these efforts.  Read more…

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