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Coding Video: The Importance of Learning to Program

Submitted by Matt Bell on 27 February, 2013 - 12:04

This engaging and well produced video gives a great perspective on the importance of learning programming (coding). Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Will.i.am and others describe how learning to program is the closest thing we have to possessing a superpower. It tells how there are over 1 million unfilled programming jobs and shows the cool facilities that high tech companies build to attract talent (nobody asking "do you want fries with that?" in these jobs). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc [1]

Material Type: 
Lecture/Presentation
Education Level: 
Middle School [2]
High School [3]
Focus Subject: 
Computing / Computer Science [4]
Engineering [5]
Robotics Software [6]
Technology [7]
HW Platform: 
Any [8]
SW Platform: 
Any [9]
Interactivity Style: 
Expositive [10]



National Science Foundation

Source URL: https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/2404?root=3476

Links
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc
[2] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/taxonomy/term/40
[3] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/taxonomy/term/41
[4] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/focus-area/computing-science
[5] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/focus-area/engineering
[6] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/focus-area/robotics-software
[7] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/focus-area/technology
[8] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/target-hardwareplatform/any
[9] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/target-software-platform/any
[10] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/taxonomy/term/25