A new generation of coders
7 Sep 2016
Education
Two Mondays a month, a group of Freeman Elementary School students will get to interact with computers outside the classroom.
But they won’t be playing Angry Birds or Pokemon Go.
Instead, the students, as young as kindergarteners, will participate in an innovative new program to teach them the basics of computer coding.
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