“Everybody in this country must learn how to program a computer…because it teaches you how to think” – Steve Jobs
“I was 13 when I got access to a computer” – Bill Gates, Bill created Microsoft
“My parents bought me a Macintosh in 1984 when I was 8 years old” – Jack, Jack created Twitter
“I was in 6th grade when I learned to code” Mark Zuckerberg, Mark created Facebook
“You don’t have to be a genius to know how to code, you need to be determined. – Vanessa, created Girl Develop IT
The globes top entrepreneurs and software developers come together in this very beautiful and inspiring film that encourages kids in school to learn how to code.
According to stats
– 9 out of 10 schools in the USA don’t offer computer programming classes,
– 41 of 50 states in the USA coding classes don’t count toward high school graduation math or science requirements.
– Only 2.4% of college students in the USA chose to study computer science.
Code.org is a non profit foundation dedicated to growing computer programing education. I support the foundation and encourage you to do the same.
The foundation started by Partovi has got the backing from top names across the globe. ie. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Clinton, Al Gore and many more.
Share the post with your network, Let’s make computer programming accessible to every student across the globe.
Have a Super Sunday and a Great Week Ahead.
8 comments
this initiative is great, I also think that everyone should know how to program computer
I have thought about learning to program for years, time to stop thinking about it and just do it
My brother was the reason why I took computer science. He made this really great impression of being a great programmer, and he still is a great programmer. I wasn’t able to fulfill that dream, but I guess it’s not too late for me to go back and hug that profession. It’s my first love anyway. <3
It’s not too late to learn programming 🙂 go for it ….
I started accessing computer from the age of 7. It was fun to operate small television like computer. As now technology has upgraded that device too. There are many changes due to technology. In today’s generation we do not have to say any kid to access computer as they do it themselves, the reason is that they are very curious to operate that and are more knowledgeable too in that. Even i have seen many school teacher learning computer basic till today also to update themselves in this technology world.
Good to know you learned this at 7 🙂 Let’s promote it to kids across the world who cannot afford access to computers
we are ready to promote it…. personally i want to promote the technology for every one…
These days, children are exposed to computers at a very young age, not like yesteryears.
So, ZK, at what age did you get your first computer?