Khan Academy updates computer science section:
http://www.khanacademy.org/cs

How it was built:
http://ejohn.org/blog/introducing-khan-cs/

Bret Vector responds:
Bret Vector - Learnable Programming

Maybe the MIT's media lab's Scratch is a middle ground between Bret's proposal and Khan computer science offering?

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