Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Hour of Code

The week of December 9 to 15 is Computer Science Education Week. This observance is celebrated annually to call attention to the need to improve and strengthen computer science education.

The Hour of Code is just one of many different events planned for Computer Science Education Week. People across the country are invited to host and attend an event that provides an introduction to computer science to show that anyone can be a maker, creator and an innovator. There are plenty of resources to help you host an event, including self-guided tutorials that cover topics such as writing your first computer program, teaching JavaScript and making apps.

Computer science provides a background for nearly every career, and if women and members of other underrepresented groups joined the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) workforce in proportion to their representation in the overall labor force, the STEM worker shortage would disappear.

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