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200,000 Aussie Kids to learn this new language by 2020

Code Camp aims to teach 200,000 Aussie kids to code by 2020

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FOR Australian kids in schools right now the most important language they will learn might not be French, German or Mandarin but rather computer coding.

It might sound strange to equate the two but the languages of coding and computer programming will soon be the most commonly understood in the world.

Back in 2013, Sydneysiders Ben Levi and Peter Neill were working in a shared office space dedicated to tech start-ups when they began helping a handful of people around them to write code. Pretty soon they had more takers.

What started as a hobby has since grown into a nationwide education initiative called Code Camp, which has now taught more than 18,000 primary school students across the country to write code in holiday programs, after school camps and classrooms in both private and public schools.

 

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