Friday, January 3, 2014

Assignment: teach 15 million kids to code. Time: one hour. Begin.

While several states ponder how to best expose school children to information technology skills, last week's Hour of Code offers a glimpse at how such efforts might be approached.

The Hour of Code was held during Computer Science Education Week, and provides basic training to schoolchildren on how to perform some simple computer code exercises. The goal of the event was to see as many school children get exposed to coding as possible, and by all accounts the event was very successful.

(Read my complete article at FierceCIO)

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