Google celebrates 50 years of kids coding on today's doodle

The realy work was done by Simon Papert, his essay "The Gears of My Childhood" (pdf link http://learn.media.mit.edu/lcl/resources/activity/week1/gear...) is worth a read.

A quote from this essay: "The fundamental fact about learning: Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models. If you can't, anything can be painfully difficult."