The 8-Year-Old Programmer
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Paul Boutin has written a piece in the New York Times Magazine about Kodu, Microsoft's XBox 360 based programming tool for kids.
“Our society thinks of computer programming as lucrative, therefore it must be hard and dull,” says the leader of the Kodu project, Matt MacLaurin. He says software development should be like a fourth-grade art class: explore, create, discover.
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