Today we’re going to talk about how computer science can support learning. Today we’re going to go a little meta and talk about how computer science can support learning with educational technology.

We’ll start by creating small programs for our very own video game to show how statements Today, Carrie Anne is going to start our overview of the fundamental building blocks of programming languages.

Part of the power of a computing environment lies in the ability to store, manipulate, and recall information. This is done using variables and statements. Here we create a variable a, and assign to ...