PPiAI Coding Survival Guide: A Manual For The African Teacher

Authored By:

S. Sciacca

,

G. Nayak

,

V. Patel

,

January 24, 2022

Our hope is that this book will be used in sub-Saharan Africa’s primary and secondary schools to teach our children how to code. The aim of this manual is that by learning from it, our beloved and hardworking students and teachers will gain some basic coding skills and then develop those skills through a project of their own. This book can be downloaded for free on our website.

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