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Code Stars (Why Computer Coding Is Important)

Added Sep 21, 2015 •

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player nabila picture of Olivia home and Astronaut I want to be a fashion designer pro basketball player actor a doctor born artist what do you want to be when you grow up  you know what a computer programmer is I think it's something that has cold and it's able to decode a mystery birthday play what computer program nowadays just about everything requires some form of programming so what is it  turn is basically explaining to computer what you want to do for you when your programming your teaching possibly the stupidest thing in the entire universe a computer how to do something is one of the only things in the world that you can do where you can sit down and just make something completely new from scratch and it whatever whatever you want it's really not unlike going to playing an instrument or something you're playing a sport that starts having very intimidating but can I get the hang of it overtime coding it is something that can be learned Nas I know I can be intimidating a lot of things are intimidating but you know what isn't a lot of people dues actually fairly simple it's it's more about the process of breaking down problems then you know swerve coming up with complicated algorithms as people traditionally think about it well if it's fairly simple why aren't there more of us doing it over the next 10 years there will be 1.4 million jobs in computer science tell me about 400,000 G qualified for those jobs that's a shortage of a million people so how do you start I was obsessed with the maps when I was when I was a kid and cities specifically so I taught myself how to program a very clear goal of what I want to do which is to see a map City on my screen and and play with it put things on the map of move things around the map see what was happening in the city how it worked how it lived breathed the best early thing was actually using software to decide when the classes in my school with me and that put me in a position to side girls were in my class the first program I wrote asked things like what's your favorite color or how old are you learn how to make a green circle and a red square appear on the screen first time true that was just on a shine what store is the light comes in and tanita I finished program is like a structure filled with light all the corners are illuminated you understand the structure of a Serene feeling to have completed that it took me some time to realize that creating things with your hands are creating code creating programs is just a different way to express credit I think right now there's a big emergence of the culture of making people who make their own scarves and hats people who ride their own apps and what kinds of ideas can you what kind of understand can you build in the computers that I can do these things that were previously impossible  all great things a better than teens when you collaborate with other small people what's not some flash of brilliance by somebody who didn't codes 24 hours a day for 3 weeks it's what happened the magic happens when we're all on the same page collaborating in building something together there's a much greater need in the world for engineers and people can write code then they intend there will ever be Supply and so we all live these very Charmed lives to get the very best people we try to make the office as awesome as Gibson tastic Chef free food breakfast lunch and dinner snacks few places to play in video games and scooters  there's always kind of interesting things around the office and places where you can play or relax Shankar play music arbitrated I want and the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the United States there's been a third of the pie that's all the things you would expect it see now they're working in the government they're working in typical technology jobs but then like price of the pie that was the majority of the pie just split down into these little tiny slices of every industry imaginable and and what it is as you know computers are everywhere you want to work in agriculture do you want to work in entertainment do you want to work in manufacturing and it's it's just all over here we are 2000 all depend on technology to communicate to bank  information and none of us know how to read and write so you guys what else who else has an idea of what we can change with our programming what else can we do today  what I saw my students take away from using scratch and programming in our classroom is that they were willing to push through problems is it really bills critical thinking it builds problem solving and it's something that they can then apply to math in the classroom or the reading skills we Integrated Science with this programming and I saw my scores go up 30%  when the school I was in the strap to school group called The Wiz Kids and people found out they laughed at me and you know all these things don't like man I don't care I think it's cool and you know I'm turn the light and some of my friends have jobs important for these kids should be mandatory to be a on this planet  to read and write code I just think you have to start small right think that's one of the biggest misconceptions about computer science and programming overall is that you have to learn this big body of information before you can do any man you don't have to be a genius to know how to co you need to be determined additions fraction that that's about it she probably know your multiplication tables if you have to be a genius to read do you have to be a genius to do math no no I think if someone had told give that  software is really about Humanity that is really about helping people by using computer technology it would have changed wow look a lot earlier whether you're trying to make a lot of money or whether you just want to change the world computer program is incredibly empowering skill to learn to be able to actually come up with an idea and then see it in your hands and I'll be able to press a button and have it be in millions of people's hands I mean I think we're the first generation the world that's really ever had that kind of experience the programmers of tomorrow or the Wizards of the future you know you're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else I think it's amazing it's a think it's the closest thing we have to a superpower great coders are today's rock stars