Everyone Should Code
Jeff Blankenburg
Technical Evangelist
Microsoft
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“Whether we're fighting climate change or going
to space, everything is moved forward by
computers, and we don't have enough people
who can code.”
Richard Branson
- Founder, Virgin
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“Learning 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
- Chairman, Microsoft
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“Everyone should code.”
Jeff Blankenburg, just now
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digital natives
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They can read.
They can’t write.
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http://beta.scratch.mit.edu/projects/10006005/
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We learned to read.
Then we read to learn.
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We didn’t learn to write so
that we could be
professional writers.