Despite positive developments in the movement to provide formal instruction in coding for kids in major American cities like New York, San Francisco, and Chicago, most schools still don't offer such courses.
This is unfortunate, because having a solid understanding of how technology works -- and not just knowing how to consume digital content -- will be crucial to kids' ability to succeed in the digital economy we live in today.
Most of the newest companies with eye-popping multibillion-dollar valuations are, in essence, computer applications made up of millions of lines of computer code. Think Facebook, Google, Instagram, Airbnb, Snapchat, Uber, and many more.
A number of reasons have been put forth for why kids should learn to code. Here are just five of them.
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