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by ChicagoBoy11 3953 days ago
Wonderful initiative -- wish this was around when I was in school.

Any projects in the works to tie this into Khan Academy's CS offerings? I work at a school which is about to pilot a programming class with 3d animation, but I found the content which you guys have put up to be far more engaging. If there were an accompanying suite where students could code and render an entire scene (especially if some Pixar assets were included!) it would absolutely be incredible and a great resource, and I certainly wouldn't hesitate one second to transition our course into it.

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I'm Pamela, the programming teacher for KA. We're thinking about adding highly guided coding challenges to the PIAB content in the future, to entice students to go deeper into programming. Alternately, we could add advanced coding challenges that have a higher prereq. We haven't quite figured out the approach yet (and that applies generally to introducing programming to other areas of KA). Feel free to email compsci-feedback@khanacademy.org with your thoughts. :)