Hour Code in Russia

From December 4 to December 12, 2014, an unprecedented Hour Code event takes place in Russia. - www.coderussia.ru

On Habré even wrote about it.


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But the organizers themselves do not really want to think something, but take someone else’s (even without an indication of authorship).
This is not a revelation story, just an observation.


The idea is good: to attract the attention of students to programming.

It should be noted that the preparation is good:

• methodical material was created;
• collected videos.

But when you look deeper, it becomes sad again for the country.

Scratch programming has long been known, and here it is presented to children.


sample job

But why it is impossible in this country to do something yourself? Why do you need to "expropriate" someone else's?

For some reason, all tasks for children repeat blockly.



Well, could you even come up with your maze?

Sad

ps I didn’t even notice, but the kids with whom we went through the algorithms last year and used blockly.