Top Highlights

• In Connected Code: Why Children Need to Learn Programming, Yasmin B. Kafai and Quinn Burke document the revival of Papert’s dream.
• it applies computer science principles to other disciplines to help break down the constituent elements of any problem, determine their relationship to each other and the greater whole, and then devise algorithms to arrive at an automated solution.
• Scratch’s origin as a tool and its shift to a popular community speak to the wider shift from computational thinking to computational participation.
• Scratch 2.0 blurs the division between the tool (Scratch as downloadable software) and the community (the online site). Users now are able to code and communicate at a single, cloud-based site.
• he added an important dimension: the artifacts of the mind have to move into the public world, where they can be examined, shared, and valued by others.