Coding for Kids
Five reasons to teach kids to code
10/15/13
The ability to communicate with machines is probably the closest thing to superpowers that can be taught.
Teaching kids computer programming from a young age can help learning development and better prepare them for a world that is becoming increasingly connected.
Over the next ten years, programming will be one of the fastest growing occupations, with 1.4 million jobs to be filled.
However only one in ten schools currently teach computer science, and there are only 400,000 graduates in the subject, leaving one million empty jobs.
Kids are becoming tech savvy at an increasingly younger age, with 26 per cent of kids under three knowing how to use a tablet.
Bill Gates, chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, previously said: “Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.”
Not only will teaching our young ones the art of coding be beneficial to their future career prospects and general development, it will also give them the opportunity to earn big bucks, as computer and mathematical jobs can earn almost double that of other occupations.
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