Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey promote computer
coding in new video
By Associated Press
February 26, 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/bill-gates-mark-zuckerberg-and-twitters-jack-dorsey-promote-computer-coding-in-new-video/2013/02/26/5611bc88-803f-11e2-a671-0307392de8de_print.html
NEW YORK — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
and Twitter creator Jack Dorsey are among the tech luminaries appearing
in a new video promoting the teaching and learning of computer coding in
schools.
Titled “What most schools don’t teach,” the video released online
Tuesday begins with Zuckerberg, Gates and other tech icons recalling the
time they got their start in coding. For some, that was in sixth grade.
For others, such as Ruchi Sanghvi, Facebook’s first female engineer,
that happened in college. Freshman year, first semester, intro to
computer science, to be exact.
Running less than six minutes, the video promotes Code.org, a nonprofit
foundation created last year to help grow computer programming education.
“The first time I actually had something come up and say ‘hello world,’
and I made a computer do that, that was just astonishing,” recalls Gabe
Newell, president of video game studio Valve.
But it’s not just tech leaders promoting programming in the video. Chris
Bosh, of the Miami Heat basketball team, says about coding: “I know it
can be intimidating, a lot of things are intimidating, but, you know,
what isn’t?”
Code.org was founded by tech entrepreneur Hadi Partovi, an early
investor in Facebook, Dropbox and the vacation rental site Airbnb. The
nonprofit wants to address an oft-cited problem among technology
companies — not enough computer science graduates to fill a growing
number of programming jobs. The group laments that many schools don’t
even offer classes in programming.
“Our policy is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can
find,” Zuckerberg says in the video. “The whole limit of the system is
just the there just aren’t enough people who are trained and have these
skills today.”
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Online:
The video: http://bit.ly/ZGiDeP
The nonprofit: http://www.code.org
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