Coding As A Playground is a book on how young children can build cognitive and social emotional skills by engaging in learning computer programming and computational thinking. The book is authored by Marina Umaschi Bers, Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development and she co-developed the Scratch Jr. programming language in […]
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We take a USB drive, plug it in our computer or TV, and voila! We transfer the files or play from the drive. So, how is it that computers or digital devices are able to talk to each other? Essentially, devices talk to each other by connections between ports. We use ports to connect to
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The above image of this post was made by me using an artificial intelligence software, Deep Dream Generator. Deep Dream is a neural network based computer program written by a computer vision engineer at Google. It is a remarkable feat that an AI software has created this image with great accuracy and visual elements, and
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Computers use binary code to communicate all information, and we have a fun way to teach binary code to kids. Binary code is a stream of 1’s and 0’s. A byte has 8 bits with 1’s and 0’s. Alphabets are also represented using binary code in computers. For example, capital A, shown in binary code
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Computer Science has literally changed the world forever in the last 30 years. And coding for kids has actually become as essential as mathematics for kids in today’s world. It is probably appreciated a bit more because it enforces kids to learn mathematics practically, while mathematics itself sometimes most of us don’t learn practically at
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Computer Science is a beautiful subject that has many areas of knowledge that a child will start to learn, and it has mathematics well intertwined in it. Introducing various coding courses for kids is absolutely fine and in fact essential, but putting too much pressure on them is not. We typically have students start with
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If your child is starting coding, then should your child start with Scratch or Python (block-based) or JavaScript (block-based)?
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When we write a program in any language, we declare a lot of variables, arrays, objects in various sections of the program such as the main function, global section, classes, functions, methods, etc. These variables need some space in the Random Access Memory (RAM). So, where are they stored? These variables are stored in two
Logarithms is a mathematical concept that is used a lot in computer-science. In this post, let’s understand this concept and its applications in computer-science and beyond. We’ll talk about how logarithms help us in: To introduce, if you know exponentials, then you know logarithms too. Because logarithms are nothing but the inverse of exponentials. For
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A program counter is an important component inside a processor. And to build a program counter, we will need a multiplexer, register and a ripple-carry adder. Let’s understand them one by one. A multiplexer is a circuit of logic gates. This circuit is what helps the CPU/processor to fetch a bit of data from memory
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