Code generation

• Autores: Niall Firth
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2985, 2014, págs. 38-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • At an after-school club in central London, six 9- and 10-year-olds are glued to their laptops. They maneuver colored blocks of code and snap them into place, making bright cartoon figures dance. Nearby, Imitiyaz has been having trouble with his fireworks. His rockets are launching, but instead of a sparkle of glitter, each one just turns into another rocket. Brow furrowed, he looks around for help. But at Code Club, kids are encouraged to work things out for themselves. After a bit of trial and error he learns that he needs to copy in the explosion loops from another part of his program and snap them into a new place. Here, Firth discusses computer programming as a new literacy for children.