It's not everyday that you have the founders and co-founders of the largest virtual companies come together to talk about an educational cause. That statement wasn't sarcasm. Although these geniuses on the keyboards share their stories and advice from time to time, they rarely have much to say about academic issues. Some of the top programmers didn't even go to college. Regardless of their pasts, this video on Code.org shows the importance of computer programming and why our future society depends on its acceleration. According to the CNN article, only 1 in 10 schools in the US provides classes that teach programming. Programming is apparently easy to learn, however, I am a new media productions major and I haven't even heard of classes that teach programming. Admittedly, I have only been with this major for 3/4 of a year, and I haven't had time to fit those classes in anyways. I am planning on learning programming, in my field, it's a given that I should know it. The video on Code.org claims that over the next 10 years there will be 1.4 million jobs in computer science, and we are only on track of having 400,000 students capable of filling these jobs. I am looking forward to programming, it is intimidating, but like Chris Bosh said, what isn't?
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