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Joli Boucher

Joli Boucher is a technology specialist for the Plymouth Public Schools.

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TEACHER VOICE: How students in one Massachusetts town learned to love coding

Avatar photo by Joli Boucher December 11, 2017December 7, 2021

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — When I was 8 years old, my father began teaching me a programming language called BASIC, using an Epson QX10 computer. I would spend hours coding names and phrases that would scroll across the screen in different shapes and patterns. Within a year, I was coding my very own “Choose Your Own […]

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