Why Coding?
Coding is a skill anyone can learn. It encourages problem solving and independent thinking. Coding is a fun way to become more interested in learning - particularly in mathematics and technology. Coding enriches cognitive thinking and can and enhance future employment prospects.
"Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident."
Susan Wojcicki, Senior Vice President, Google
"They are not just learning to code, they are coding to learn… learning strategies for solving problems, designing projects, and communicating ideas. These skills are useful not just for computer scientists but for everyone, regardless of age, background, interests, or occupation"
Mitchel Resnick, Edsurge
8 May 2013 Source: edsurge.com/news
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Articles and Reports
- Edsurge: ‘Learn to code, code to learn’
- Wired: ‘Forget foreign languages and music. Teach our kids to code’
- Forbes: ‘Why Estonia has started teaching its first-graders to code’
- The Guardian: ‘Why all our kids should be taught how to code’
- The Guardian: ‘Young coders: what’s happening in the rest of the world?’
- The Wall Street Journal: ‘Sorry, college grads, I probably won’t hire you’
- Los Angeles Times: ‘Want to prepare kids for the future? Teach them to code’
- Tech Crunch: ‘Linkedin’s Reid Hoffman on two realistic outcomes of teaching everyone to code’
- Business Insider Australia: ‘Here’s why more than 800 Harvard students signed up for a notoriously hard computer science class’
- Financial Review: ‘Should schools teach coding as part of the curriculum?’
- LinkedIn: ‘Teaching kids to code will change the world. Here’s how’
- Venture Beat: ‘Why computer science is Stanford’s top major, in two charts’
- Hour of code: ‘Leaders and trend-setters all agree on one thing’
- Australian Computer Society: ‘Digital technology and Australian teenagers’
- Ted: ‘Let’s teach kids to code’
- Venture Beat: ‘Will.i.am: Coding is the ‘most creative space’
- Tech Crunch: ‘Google invests $50 million in “made with code” program to get girls excited about CS’
- Business Insider Australia: ‘Meet Lyndsey Scott, The Victoria’s Secret model who codes in her free time’
"Digital skills are going to be one of the most sought after skills"
Jan Owen, Chief Executive of the Foundation for Young Australians
4 July 2016 Source: abc.net.au/news
Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think
Steve Jobs, AppleOur policy at Facebook is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can find. There just aren’t enough people who are trained and have these skills today
Mark Zuckerberg, FacebookLearning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains
Bill Gates, MicrosoftI was 30,000 feet up and my life was in the balance: you can learn skills at any age but why wait when we can teach everyone to code now!
Richard Branson, Virgin Group