Kids Urged to Learn Computer Coding

Celebs encourage the skill

If there a few celebrities children should take advice from, it's Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and will.i.am. The three men are featured in a new video from Code.org, a nonprofit foundation pushing to expand computer-programming education in the United States, and are urging them to get excited about coding and making software programs. The clip kicks off with a quote from late Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs saying, “ Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer because it teaches you how to think.” The organization claims, “One million of the best jobs in America may go unfulfilled because only 1 in 10 schools teach students to code.” (Dispatch)

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