The course design of walnut programming refers to CSTA (Computer Science Teachers Association) American computer science education standard and ARCS motivation design model, and constantly optimizes the course experience. The research and development team of the first course comes from traditional educational institutions.
Talents in science and technology enterprises, children's psychological behavior research and other fields will constantly optimize the curriculum system of "Walnut Programming" to ensure the matching degree between the scientific nature of the curriculum and children's education. In just 20 18 a year, the financing frequency of children's programming industry is higher than the sum of the past three years, and the market scale goes straight to 40 billion yuan.
Just last week, Walnut Programming completed the $50 million Series B financing, which once again set an industry record and stood firm in the first echelon of the whole track with the scale of 650,000 paid students. According to Zeng Pengxuan, founder and CEO of Walnut Programming, the mission of children's programming will be the same as English in the next five to ten years.
From extracurricular to classroom, it has become a new formal subject. Obviously, this is not an easy goal to achieve, but think about it. Decades ago, students born after 80s, including Zhang Yiming and Huang Zheng, had to wear blue shoe covers before entering the computer classroom. Who would have thought that some of them would become a technology company with a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars?
The boundaries of a career are determined by imagination. 1967, Seymour Piper, a South African computer scientist and mathematician, designed the first geometric programming language LOGO for children, which opened the door to children's programming in the form of "little turtle drawing" and was limited by the high manufacturing cost of computers that ordinary families could not afford.
Around the1970s, a physical version of "Little Turtle" consisting of a simple controller and drawing equipment appeared. This creation inspired Eerde Christensen, the former CEO of Lego. 1September, 1998, Lego named after Seymour's works and released its first programmable robot product Mindstorms series.
Since then, the American children's programming industry has stepped onto the forefront of the world. By 20 18, the penetration rate of children's programming in the United States reached 44.8%.