What is R? If you guessed, “a letter in the alphabet,” you’re only halfway right. The letter R also represents a programming language typically used by people to compile statistics as well as analyze or create visual representations of a data set. In many ways it is similar to products like Microsoft Excel, SPSS and STATA but free to download ... Read More »
Over the past two years, iSchool Ph.D. student Mike Lee has been working on Gidget, a game designed to teach computer programming concepts to kids and teens through debugging puzzles. Gidget is now available for anyone to play at www.helpgidget.com. Give it a try! The game takes a very different approach than existing learning technologies for programming. Rather than trying to motivate kids through creativity (as ... Read More »
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