The first step in the organizations efforts as regards the curriculum of schools was to work with US school districts to add computer programming as a class. Most US schools did not have a course code for computer sciences, in order for schools to be able to offer coding as a class. After this, the next step was to create free online teaching and learning materials for schools to use if instituting computer science classes.[46]By 2014, Code.org had launched computer courses in thirty US school districts to reach about 5% of all the students in US public schools (about two million students),[47]and by 2015, Code.org had trained about 15,000 teachers to teach computer sciences, able to reach about 600,000 new students previously unable to learn computer coding, with large percentages of those being either female or minorities.[48]To date, Code.org has prepared over 72,000 educators to teach computer science.
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In late February 2013, a month after launch, they released a video featuringMark ZuckerbergBill GatesJack Dorsey, and other programmers and entrepreneurs on the importance of learning to code.[12][13][14][15]Two weeks after the launch,TechCrunchreported that the video had gone viral and received a lot of positive attention.[16]Partovi raised about $10 million for Code.org from various tech companies and tech company founders.[17]In 2014, Code.org posted a one-hour tutorial to build and customize aFlappy Birdvideo game using the sites block visual programming language.[18][19]Code.org has also created coding programs revolving around characters from the Disney filmFrozen,[20]in addition toAngry Birds, andPlants vs. Zombies.[21]In December 2014, Code.org held a successfulcampaign that raised over $5 million to help educate school children.[22]Overall, about 100 million students have been reached by Code.org efforts.[23][24]On November 16, 2015,Microsoftannounced a partnership with Code.org to launchMinecraftas a tutorial to teach kids how to code.[25]
According to its website, Code.org has the following goals:[3]
Harnessing the collective power of the tech community to celebrate and grow C.S. education worldwide
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Bringing Computer Science classes to everyK12school in the United States, especially in urban and rural neighborhoods.
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TAYLOR SOPER (June 3, 2015).Code.org inks 11 new partnerships to help expand computer science education. Geek Wire.
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In February 2016, Code.org won the award for Biggest Social Impact at the Annual Crunchies Awards.[26]By September 2016, Code.org founder Hadi Partovi was recognized as a Top 30 Education Leader by the Center for Digital Education.[27]In December 2016, Code.org was recognized by the NASDAQ market by opening the stock market.[28]
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Is Code.org Too Soulless To Make an Impact?.
Jessice Guynn (September 10, 2015).Code.org trains 15,000 teachers in computer science. USA Today.
Writing forSan Jose Mercury News, Mike Cassidy praised Code.org and the Hour of Code, writing: A publicity stunt is what we need.[57]John Dvorakwas critical of the Hour of Code in an article forPC Magazine. Dvorak wrote: I see it as a ploy to sell more computers in schools.[58]
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Learn to code at Apple stores across the world.
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NORAH O`DONNELL, MICHELLE MILLER, GAYLE KING (May 7, 2014).Several leading names in tech are urging California Governor Jerry Brown to make a meaningful investment in computer science and education. CBS This Morning.
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Want your kids to learn another language? Teach them code.
Demonstrating the successful use of online curriculum in public school classrooms
During Computer Science Education Week[29]from December 9 to December 15, 2013, Code.org launched the Hour of Code Challenge on its website to teachcomputer sciencetoschool students, enticing them to complete short programmingtutorials.[30][31][32][33]The Hour of Code involved getting people to write short snippets of code to achieve pre-specified goals usingBlockly, avisual programming languageof a similar flavor asLogo. The initiative had been announced about two months in advance[34]and at the time of launch, the initiative was supported by former United States PresidentBarack Obamaas well as executives from technology companies such asMicrosoftandApple Inc.[35][36]About 20 million people participated and over 600 million lines of code had been written.[37][38][39]The Hour of Code also offered participation gifts to some of the schools involved, such as a set of fifty laptops or a conference call with one a tech luminary like Gates or Dorsey.[40]The crowdfunding effort for Hour of Code received the highest amount of funding ever raised on Indiegogo.[41]By October 2014, about forty million students had taken the Hour of Code class,[42]and a second Hour of Code was held in December 2014.[43]That year, locations for Hour of Code lessons included Apple retail stores.[44]
is a non-profit organization and eponymous website led byHadi Partovithat aims to encourage people, particularly school students in the United States, to learn computer science.The website includes free coding lessons and the initiative also targets schools in an attempt to encourage them to include more computer science classes in the curriculum.On December 9, 2013, they launched the Hour of Code nationwide to promote computer science during Computer Science Education Week through December 15, 2013.
In December 2016, Canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeauhelped launch the international Hour of Code campaign for 2016.[45]And in December 2017, Code.org announced the Hour of Code had reached over 500 million hours served.
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One of the main lobbying efforts of Code.org in state legislatures is to ensure that computer classes are not registered as foreign language classes, but as science classes, in order to ensure that more than coding is taught in computer courses.[55]Code.org also focuses specifically on female and minority students, as the organization believes these are the students most at risk of not receiving computer science education before high school or college.[56]
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Mike Cassidy (October 14, 2013).Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey, Susan Wojcicki, Reid Hoffman and John Doerr Back Code.org Effort to Teach Computer Science in Every School in the Country. Oakland Tribune.
Increasing their global outreach by making their courses available in more than 45 languages that are used in over 180 countries.
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Microsoft and Code.org launch Minecraft tutorial to teach kids how to code.
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Code.org targets high school computer science.
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That year Code.org was partnered with about seventy of the largest US school districts (including each of the seven largest), representing several million students. The company also partnered with other computer class businesses and private entities to provide additional computer learning materials and opportunities.[49][50]As of 2015, six million students had been enrolled in Code.org curriculum classes.[51]That year, Code.org partnered with College Board, in order to develop a slate of advanced placement computer classes.[52]The main platform used in Code.org instruction is Code Studio[53]which according to TechCrunch, teaches the underlying concepts in programming through the manipulation of blocks of logic that when stacked together in a particular order, move a character around a scene or draw a shape.[54]
Guynn, Jessica (2013-02-26).Silicon Valley launches campaign to get kids to codeLos Angeles Times.
Flappy birthday to Code.orgThe Washington Post.
Increasing the representation of women and students of color in the field of Computer Science.
[2]nytimes.com Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding
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Eliana Dockterman (November 20, 2014).Frozens Anna and Elsa Let It Code to Close the Tech Gender Gap. Time Magazine.
Code.org was launched in January 2013 byHadi Partoviand Ali Partovi, as a non-profit focused on making computer programming more accessible. The initial focus was on creating a database of all computer science classrooms in the United States.[7]At the time,Hadi Partovistated that about ninety percent of US schools do not teach programming, despite it now being a foundational field.[8]The idea for the organization came from Hadi, who states that he thought of it on the day ofSteve Jobs death in 2011 while mulling over his own potential legacy.[9]After this, Hadi worked full-time to bring the organization to fruition.[7][10][11]
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Changing policies in all 50 states to categorize C.S. as part of the math/science core curriculum