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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/touchdevelop-excites-students-1.png320240Ninety eighth-grade students at Mill Creek Middle School in Kent, Washington, learned how to write smartphone programs with TouchDevelop, a Microsoft Research programming environment that enables users to create and test programs on Windows Phone. Most of the students had no prior experience with programming, but after tinkering with TouchDevelop for an hour, students came […]