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Khan Academy Computing is the company blog at cs-blog.khanacademy.org, writing about programming. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Our Design Guidelines for Teaching Programming Talkthroughs”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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15mentions?
9HN people?
2013–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2014

A blog from the Khan Academy Computing team. We'll post on what we've released, what we're working on, and what we learn as we go along.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Our Design Guidelines for Teaching Programming Talkthroughs
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-26
  2. Algorithms on Khan Academy – a collaboration with Dartmouth College professors
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-17
  3. Learn SQL Interactively on Khan Academy
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. pamelafox · 2013-09-22
    This is something we've been thinking a lot about while working on the Khan Academy programming curriculum. We want the lessons and challenges to be fun, and to actually product something that the user can identify with (very often, an animal or food :-), but we also don't want to sacrifice teaching the concept in a clear way. For example, today we debated how to do our intro to loops tutorial, and we found that the…

    Comment linking /2013/08/our-design-guidelines-for-teaching.html

    on “The Importance of Whimsy in Learning to Program”
  2. pamelafox · 2015-05-11

    Submitted Learn SQL Interactively on Khan Academy as a story · 439 points

    HN discussion
  3. pamelafox · 2014-11-17

    Submitted Algorithms on Khan Academy – a collaboration with Dartmouth College professors as a story · 360 points

    HN discussion
  4. eagler · 2013-08-26

    Submitted Our Design Guidelines for Teaching Programming Talkthroughs as a story · 56 points

    HN discussion
  5. sogen · 2018-10-13

    Submitted Learn SQL Interactively on Khan Academy as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  6. denzil_correa · 2014-05-12

    Submitted New advanced JS course: Learn to program natural simulations as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  7. pamelafox · 2015-09-29

    Submitted New Course: Learn JQuery Interactively on Khan Academy as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  8. pamelafox · 2014-11-21

    Submitted Learn How to Make Webpages with HTML and CSS on Khan Academy as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  9. pamelafox · 2015-02-27

    Submitted New Course: Make Interactive Webpages with JavaScript (Khan Academy) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. spicyj · 2013-08-31

    Submitted Introducing Programming Challenges as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. tuki · 2015-04-03

    Submitted Basic Comp Sci Alogrithms as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. pamelafox · 2015-12-23

    Submitted The most common syntax mistakes from SQL newbies as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. danso · 2014-07-09

    Submitted Peer evaluations for coding projects on Khan Academy as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. donohoe · 2014-03-05

    Submitted Girls and boys perform identically on programming challenge (Khan Academy) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. ColinWright · 2013-08-26

    Submitted Khan Academy CS blog as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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