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I fell in love with computer programming in a public junior high school 7th grade class back in 1975. (Read Me and Mr. Jones<\/a>) By the time I was eighteen, I was hired to create one of the world’s first computer programming camp programming for kids (1982). (Read In the Beginning<\/a>) In 1990, I led professional development at the first two “laptop schools” in which every child owned their own personal laptop and programmed across the curriculum. (Read The Year of the Laptop<\/a>) Ever since, I have advocated for every child learning to program as a creative outlet, intellectual laboratory, and means to develop agency over an increasingly complex and technologically sophisticated world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Computing was, is, and should be fun!<\/p>– Gary Stager<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

One question I often ponder is, “Under what conditions could recreational computing return to the lives of children?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I explore this question and make the case for computing in this video of a keynote I gave in June 2020. This was the closing keynote address at the Virtual MakerEd Unconference Online<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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