Coder’s delight: TuneTable teaches kids programming basics by making music

Posted December 20, 2016

External Article: Yahoo! Finance

“Coder’s Delight: TuneTable Teaches Kids Programming Basics by Making Music” featured LMC professor Brian Magerko's project EarSketch
Yahoo! Finance - December 20, 2016

Excerpt

As some states consider computer coding as a foreign-language high school credit, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Northwestern University are developing a musical table to teach kids the basics of programming. They’re calling the interactive exhibit TuneTable, and they hope its vibe will resonate with youth across the United States. The table emerged from a design challenge that Brian Magerko, the project lead and an associate professor at GT, posed to his students. Magerko and his team had already created EarSketch, an online platform that allows high school students to make music through code, and in doing so practice languages like Python, JavaScript, and Blockly by blending beats, effects, and samples. Magerko asked his college students to apply a similar approach to an informal learning environment, and to compress the weeks’ worth of learning time involved in EarSketch to just a few minutes.


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