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"How to teach programming (and other things)?" by Felienne Hermans
Strange Loop Conference
Felienne Hermans's Strange Loop keynote on the history and pedagogy of teaching programming. She questions exploration-only approaches like Logo and discusses research supporting explicit instruction and rote practice.
Cited in threads about teaching kids and beginners to code as research-based evidence that explicit instruction beats pure discovery.
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