Mile End Hour of Code

For the past year, I have been increasingly convinced that every kid should learn to code. Since I have daughters and I work at an all-girls’ school, my interest tends to lean toward getting girls interested in programming, but I guess boys can still learn too (before you get your knickers in a knot- I was kidding! Of course, boys should learn too. But not frogs. They would have to invent a flipper friendly keyboard).

Here are some of my talking points on this subject:

1. Computers are ubiquitous in our life
2. Yet most of us have no idea how they work
3. It is going to be increasingly necessary to know how they work even if you are not in a computer science field.
4. Yet learning how to program is not part of our curriculum
5. Many of the most interesting, flexible and highly paid jobs are in computer science
6. Yet the…