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"Some of the biggest names in tech and Hollywood have joined forces in a new video for Code.org, a non-profit focused on computer programming education, to encourage students to take coding classes.\nEntrepreneurs like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Square founder Jack Dorsey and Microsoft founder Bill Gates open up about how they got started coding. Zuckerberg says he started coding when he was in sixth grade because he wanted to make \"something that was fun for myself and my sisters.\" Bill Gates started coding in his teens and wrote a program to play tic-tac-toe. \nAs the video shows, it's not just techies who code. Chris Bosh from the Miami Heat says he took programming classes in college and singer Will.I.Am says he's taking coding classes right now. \n\"When I was in school, I was in this after school group called the Whiz Kids,\" Bosh says in the video. \"When people found out, they laughed at me, you know all these things. I'm like, 'I don't care, I think it's cool, I'm learning a lot and some of my friends have jobs.'\" \nWill.I.Am adds: \"Here we are, 2013. We all depend on technology to communicate, to bank, information, and none of us know how to read and write code.\"\nReps from Facebook, Dropbox, Valve and other companies tout the perks of working in their offices and what they look for when hiring. \"Our policy is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can find,\" Zuckerberg says. \"The whole limit in the system is there just aren't enough people who are trained in these skills today.\"\nAs Code.org points out at the end of the video, one million jobs in America may go unfilled because 90% of schools don't teach students how to code. \nImage courtesy of YouTube, Code.Org"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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