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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?“

MORE QUOTES: http://www.code.org/quotes

 

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

More Perspective and Perspective from Mozilla in this video.  Coding, Scouting, and Camping compared….a powerful idea.