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Tag: JavaScript

  • What to cover in class: Apps or PWA?

    I found this article describing a portion of one side of the argument, app or not, which may well suggest an answer the question of where to spend out time in CS here.  Read the full article and the comments on Medium.  The author is not without an unbiased view point, consider what this might…

  • Why Teach Every Kid to Program?

    At this time of year, looking forward to next year, everyone always asks "Why teach a student to program?" Let’s just do office applications or keyboarding like we always have. The answer is that in today’s workplace, even those who don’t program need to know it. Does your school teach programming? How will your students…

  • Google Apps Script is Another Reason to Learn Javascript with CodeYear

      Automate tasks across Google Products Scripts that are easy to build and fast to run           Google Apps Script is a JavaScript cloud scripting language that provides easy ways to automate tasks across Google products and third party services. With Google Apps Script you can: Automate repetitive business processes (e.g. expense approvals,…