Big backing for coding classes

15th March 2013, 12:00am

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Big backing for coding classes

https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/big-backing-coding-classes

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates are supporting a campaign, coordinated by US non-profit organisation Code.org, to bring computer coding classes into schools. The pair, along with Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, are among those to appear in a film backing the scheme, which will be broadcast in US cinemas, via Facebook and on YouTube.

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