Procedural Literacy
Problem Solving with Programming, Systems, and Play. In the Journal of Media Literacy 52, no. 1-2 (2005).
Some 30 years ago, the first wave of personal computers spawned a surge of interest in programming education, especially in getting children to program. At the Xerox Palo Alto Research (PARC) group, Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg proposed an environment in which anyone could program simulations (Kay & Goldberg 1977). Using their object-oriented Smalltalk language, Kay and Goldberg argued that… read more