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Should Non-IT Professionals Learn to Code?

Globally, there has been a lot of push in the last year to generate more coding awareness among non-IT professionals. However, even for those who agree that coding is important, there are differing opinions about who should learn it. What is vital is understanding the end goal of learning to code.

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Mukesh Sharma
Are Your Kids Coding Yet? Sign Them Up for the Hour of Code

Code.org is launching a program called the "Hour of Code"—a nationwide effort to introduce computer science to ten million students, coinciding with Computer Science Education Week in December 2013. Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, and more than one hundred other partners are participating.

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Pamela Rentz