Google celebrates 50 years of kids coding on today's doodletheverge.com 4 pointscdvonstinkpot8 years ago1 commentSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−Jun88yThe realy work was done by Simon Papert, his essay "The Gears of My Childhood" (pdf link http://learn.media.mit.edu/lcl/resources/activity/week1/gear...) is worth a read.A quote from this essay: "The fundamental fact about learning: Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models. If you can't, anything can be painfully difficult."
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The realy work was done by Simon Papert, his essay "The Gears of My Childhood" (pdf link http://learn.media.mit.edu/lcl/resources/activity/week1/gear...) is worth a read.
A quote from this essay: "The fundamental fact about learning: Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models. If you can't, anything can be painfully difficult."