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Coding for...the innately able
Coding for...the usual suspects

Is coverage of new coding initiatives just reaching the same old suspects, or are we (and should we be) drawing in new people?

This is the question I want to look at now, following on from last week's blog which outlined some rough ideas about levels of activity in computer use.

There are broadly two camps in the push for more coding:

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Coding for Kids

Recently I’ve been thinking about the increasing push for children to learn to code.  
One thing I’ve been particularly interested in is the reason we’ve suddenly become so interested in coding. The benefits outlined in CAS’ ‘Computer Science: A curriculum for schools’ (.pdf) relate to:

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