Local elementary school teaching computer programming skills to students | News
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S tudents starting in kindergarten through fifth grade are being taught computer programming with effective results, and they showed the grown-ups the skills they’ve learned this week.
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Joe Edwards is a reporter for The Facts. Contact him at 979-237-0154.
