I’m incredibly excited to take this opportunity to announce a
new project that I’ve been leading here at Khan Academy: Khan
Academy Computer Science. We’re releasing a completely new
platform that targets people with no programming knowledge and
gives them an engaging and fun environment to learn in. Over
everything else we wanted to emphasize creativity and
exploration and make it approachable for people of all ages,
including young kids. Sal Khan and I recorded a video giving a
good introduction to what we’re releasing: To get started feel
free to visit the Khan Academy Computer Science site: Explore,
play around, and build something! Jamie Wong, who worked on the
CS platform this summer, has also written up a blog post on his
experience developing the platform. Earlier this year I was
working on an iteration of the CS platform which was heavily
focused on structured curriculum leading towards exploratory
projects. After watching that video I couldn’t shake the feeling
that what he presented was a fundament