Code.Org – Public Service Announcement!
March 8, 2013 § 1 Comment
CODE.ORG
Listen carefully to this video – It’s Easy! Addition/Subtraction – You don’t have to be a genius.
How old is your child? Are they learning coding? When will you start learning?
- Bill Gates – 13 years old when he started
- Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) was 12 yrs old (6th grad)
- Jack Dorsey (Square) – 8 yrs old
1st Programs They Wrote? – Very easy ones…..
- Tic-Tac-Toe (Bill Gates first program)
- What’s your favorite color (Drew Houston – Dropbox)
- Simply making something fun for myself and my sisters (Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook )
Start LEARNING NOW! Start Coding in less than 2 minutes. http://www.code.org/learn/codecademy :
TEACHERS! – Start Teaching Now! : http://www.code.org/teach
MOZILLA’S WEBMAKER: Make Something Even Cooler – No Skills Required – https://webmaker.org/en-US/tools/#thimble
QUOTES and AMAZING PERSPECTIVE:
Jeff Wilke: SVP Consumer Business, Amazon.com“Coders change the world. They build new, amazing things faster than ever before. Anyone with imagination can learn to write code.“
Tim O’Reilly; Founder, O’Reilly Media“Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren’t a programmer, you’re like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we’ll have another one when everyone programs.“
Dick Costolo; CEO, Twitter“If you can program a computer, you can achieve your dreams. A computer doesn’t care about your family background, your gender, just that you know how to code. But we’re only teaching it in a small handful of schools, why?“
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
More Perspective and Perspective from Mozilla in this video. Coding, Scouting, and Camping compared….a powerful idea.
Reblogged this on E-skills4Future – stories about e-skills and commented:
I found this post very interesting and inspiring. Thanks Jim!