How do we teach them?
Introduction
If there's one thing this book seeks to address, it is: What are programming languages?
It sounds simple, but answering this question deeply will require us to ask other questions: Why do we call them “languages”? Why are there so many? Why do people fluent in them get paid so much? How are they related to those other things we call “languages” (like English, Spanish, or American Sign Language)? Where do they come from? Where are they going? How do we learn them? What happens in your brain when you do?
And, above all:
Japan, Italy, England, and Finland are just a few of the countries that have begun to mandate coding education throughout K-12 public education. Computer science educational standards now ...
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