UW News
Megumi Kivuva
March 14, 2024
UW researchers taught kids to code with cultural research and embroidery machines
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University of Washington researchers taught a group of high schoolers to code by combining cultural research into various embroidery traditions with “computational embroidery.” The method teaches kids to encode embroidery patterns on a computer through a coding language called Turtlestitch.