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'In a couple of years it will become a basic life skill' – SapientNitro's Nigel Vaz and others on the importance of teaching kids to code

on May 29, 2014 | 0 comments

By Jennifer Faull

In July last year, the government announced that “revolutionary” changes would be made to the curriculum in state schools across England, with coding to be taught in computer lessons to kids as young as five from October 2014. A few months later the BBC declared it would be launching a new initiative on the same scale as its Computer Literacy Project from the 1980s to help school kids understand the basics of digital technology and computer coding. And in the last couple of years, schemes likes CodeClub have been established in the UK with the similar aim of arming the Read full story ›

Source: The Drum