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Obama Becomes First President to Write a Computer Program
President Barack Obama told the world that everyone should learn how to code. And now he’s putting his money where his mouth is. Earlier today, to help kick-off the annual Computer Science Education Week, Obama became the first president ever to write a computer program. It was a very simple program—all it does is draw a square on a screen—but that’s the point, says Hadi Partovi, co-founder Code.org, an organization...
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I remember when the only class involving computers at my school was Keyboarding 101. Hopefully there's a moving trend toward introducing students to programming classes earlier in the curriculum than college. And ideally without using lower level languages like C / C++.
Yeah it's definitely happening, and should get more popular as we get close to 2020. I personally got introduced through a keyboarding course and a turbo pascal coding course (for those who were born in the late 70's / early 80's).