Programming in Primary School: Making Monsters!

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By Grok Learning
Community contribution / December 3, 2019

Learning to program is more than simply learning to write code.

This is why many school computing curriculums focus on computational thinking; developing skills such as logical reasoning, decomposition, algorithmic thinking ...

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