A few months ago we learned that Google was planning to retire the communication service known as Google Hangouts… while transitioning some of the key features to its Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet services. It’s still not entirely clear what this will mean or when it will happen for personal users. But Google has announced […]
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CrowPi is a Raspberry Pi-based computer science education kit (crowdfunding)
There are plenty of ways to use a Raspberry Pi to learn to code, whether you buy a kid-friendly Kano Computing Kit or just download free software (like Kano’s, for example), that includes simple games, tutorials, and interactive apps for learning to code. But the new CrowPi presents another solution… one that’s not just aimed […]
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Google’s Grasshopper mobile app teaches you to code JavaScript in your free time
Google’s Area 120 has released a new smartphone app designed to teach beginners how to write code. It’s called Grasshopper, and it kind of feels like Duolingo for coding. While Duolingo offers short lessons and quizzes that help you learn to speak, read, and write another language, Grasshopper teaches you a programming language. Javascript, specifically. […]
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Google’s Project Bloks teaches kids to code with physical hardware modules
There are a lot of projects designed to help kids learn to code… so that instead of just using games and apps developed by others, they learn the basics of creating their own software at an early age. Google’s Project Bloks takes a different approach to most, because it focuses on tangible programming. In other words, kids […]