It's All About Coding
summary
Codecademy reports 24 million users and shows a one-month learner launching a top-50 site; workshops recreate an Airbnb page and a jumping-gorilla game live. Claim: 70 percent of programming jobs will go unfilled by 2020. Tools shown: Codecademy (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Python, Ruby), Hopscotch as a hopscotch for 8–12-year-olds visual language, Girls Who Code curricula, UK curriculum change (ages 5–14). Examples include a bill-splitting app, an automated ticket-entry script, and a middle-school GPS app that helps a blind classmate — all built and used.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:40How many people have a smartphone
- 5:05How does Code Academy work
- 9:10First image of a computer programmer
- 10:50Why do we need women in coding
- 15:00What does coding do in our daily lives
- 27:07How does hopscotch work
- 28:37Why should kids do hopscotch
- 30:36Help for teachers
- 31:39Open questions
- 33:25The future of coding
- 35:30When to start coding
- 37:28The power of code
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