According to a report of future projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, coding and programming jobs will increase by 22% by the year 2020. This is due in part by the ever-expanding mobile networks, which will in turn lead to software companies increasing their demand for programmers, support technicians as well as systems analysts. As it stands right now, there are few college students enrolled in the computer sciences to fill those future needs, which could be detrimental to the tech market in the long run. In an effort to get schoolchildren and college students interested in the computer sciences, world leaders, tech companies and entertainers have teamed-up with Code.org to bring the computer sciences into classrooms around the globe with an initiative known as Hour of Code.
The initiative invites teachers to devote one hour per week to teaching software programming. Since its release a little over a week ago, approximately 5-million students from 35,000 schools, across 167 countries successfully took part in the project and those numbers continue to grow on a daily basis. The Hour of Coding is for persons from 6 to 106 and covers a wide variety of programming including writing your first program, an introduction to JavaScript, robot programming, introduction to iOS and Android platforms, Python programming and gaming programming. If that was not enough, both Apple and Microsoft have an Hour of Coding workshop in each of their retail stores to further the programming education. Anyone can participate, even non-students, all that is required is an internet connection or a mobile device along with a modern (up to date) web browser. If the current numbers are any indication, those future coding/programming jobs will certainly become filled in the very near future.
This initiative is sure to "create" a future wave of innovative people.
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