Viral Video Aims To Inspire The Next Generation Of Coders A
viral video at Code.org may serve as an inspirational step
towards helping our nation work its way out of its down economic
times and towards employment in the high-tech sector. NY1's
Technology reporter Adam Balkin filed the following report. To
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Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. Over the
next 10 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
there will be 1.4 million jobs in computer science in the United
States but only 400,000 graduates will be qualified for those
jobs. Statistics like those that have mobilized an online
movement called Code.org, a movement that spawned a viral video
featuring a who's-who of the tech world and beyond, encouraging
kids to start learning computer coding ASAP. "One of my goals
was to break down a lot of the stereotypes about computer
coding, namely that you have to be a genius to do it, that
coders code along for infinite hours whi