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Why should you talk to your computer?

When children start learning how to read, they do so by using their voice and speaking the words out loud. In this lecture, Felienne Hermans (Leiden University) explains how speaking a computer code out loud can help children to learn programming faster. As it turns out, the more we talk, the better we learn.

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Dr. Felienne Hermans

Dr. Felienne Hermans is a computational scientist at Leiden University

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