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"Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer...

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because it teaches you how to think." - Steve Jobs

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What do you want to be when you grow up Olivia?

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An astronaut.

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I want to be a fashion designer.

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A basketball player.

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I want to be an actor.

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A doctor.

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A teacher.

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A chef.

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An artist.

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What do you want to be when you grow up?

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A mermaid.

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Do you know what a computer programmer is?

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Yeah... no.

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No.

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Ummmm, no.

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I think is't something that has codes, and it's a what, that decodes a mystery.

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I think, that they...

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Ummmm, wait what?

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... computer programmer.

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... no...

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Nowdays, just about everything requires some form of programming.

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So... what is it?

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Programming is basically explaining to your computer what you want it to do for you.

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When you're programming you're teaching possibly the stupidest thing in the entire universe,

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a computer, how to do something.

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Programming is one of the only things in the world that you can do where,

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you can sit down and just make something completely new from scratch,

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you know whatever you want.

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It's really not unlike kind of playing an instrument or something, or playing a sport.

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It starts out being very intimidating, but you kind of get the hang of it over time.

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Coding is something that can be learned.

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And I know it can be intimidating and a lot of things are intimidating.

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But you know, what isn't?

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A lot of the coding that people do is actually fairly simple.

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It's more about the process of breaking down problems,

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than coming up with complicated algorithms as people traditionally think about it.

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Well if it's fairly simple, why aren't there more of us doing it?

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Over the next 10 years there will be 1.4 million jobs in computer science,

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and only about 400,000 grads qualified for those jobs.

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That's a shortage of a million people.

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So how do you start?

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I was obsessed with maps when I was a kid.

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And cities specifically.

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So I taught myself how to program.

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I had a very clear goal of what I wanted to do,

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which was to see a map of the city on my screen and play with it

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put things on the map and move things around the map

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see what was happening in the city, how it worked

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how it lived, how it breathed.

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The best early thing was actually using software to

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decide when the classes in my school would meet.

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And that put me in a position to decide which girls were in my class.

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The first program I wrote asked things like:

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"What's your favorite color?", or "How old are you?"

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I first learned how to make a green circle and a red square appear on the screen.

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The first time I actually had something come up and say "Hello World!".

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And I made a computer do that, it was just astonishing!

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When I finally learned a little bit of programming that blank wall resolved into a bunch of doors.

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And you open them and finally you start to open enough doors the that light comes in.

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And to me a finished program is like a structure filled with light.

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All the corners are illuminated, you understand the structure of it.

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It's a really serene feeling, to have completed that.

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It took me some time to realise that creating things with your hands,

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or creating code, creating programs.

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It's just a different way to express creativity.

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I think right now there's a big emergence of the culture of making.

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People who make their own scarves and hats.

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People who write their own apps.

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Now it's just limited by your imagination.

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And sort of, what kinds of ideas can you...

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what kind of understanding can you build into the computers,

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that it can do these things that were previously impossible.

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All great things are built in teams.

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And when you collaborate with other smart people.

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You're testing your ideas, you're stimulating each other.

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That's what makes us successful.

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It's not some flash or brilliance by somebody who then codes 24 hours a day for three weeks.

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The magic happens when we're all on the same page, collaborating and building something together.

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There's a much greater need in the world for engineers and for people who can write code,

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then there will ever be supply.

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And so we all live these very charmed lives.

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To get the very best people, we try to make the office as awesome as possible.

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[what would you do if you weren't afraid?]

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We have a fantastic chef!

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Free food!

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Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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Free laundry.

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Snacks.

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Even places to play, and video games and scooters.

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There's all these kind of interesting things around the office,

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and places were people can play or relax,

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or go to think or play music or be creative.

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I went on the Bureau of Labour statistics for the United States,

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and there's about a third of the pie that's all the things you would expect

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their working in the government

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their working in typical technology jobs.

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But then, the rest of the pie, it was the majority of the pie.

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Just split down into these little teeny slices of every industry imaginable!

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And what it is, is computers are everywhere!

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You want to work in agriculture?

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Do you want to work in entertainment?

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Do you want to work in manufacturing? It's just all over!

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Here we are in 2013, we all depend on technology to communicate.

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To bank.

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Information, and none of us know how to read and write code!

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So you guys, what else? Who else has an idea of what we can change with our programming?

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What else can we do?

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Tiffany?

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What I saw my students take away from using Scratch and programming in our classroom.

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Is that they were willing to push through problems.

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It really builds critical thinking.

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It builds problem solving.

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And it's something they can then apply to math in the classroom, or their reading skills.

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We integrated science with this programming and I saw my scores go up 30%.

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When I was in school I was in this after-school group called the "Whizz Kids".

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And when people found out they laughed at me, you know all these things.

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And I'm like man "I don't care, I think it's cool...

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And you know I'm learning a lot. And some of my friends have jobs!"

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It's important for these kids.

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It should be mandatory.

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To be a citizen on this planet.

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To read and write code!

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I just think you have to start small.

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I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions computer science and programming overall is that,

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you have to learn this big body of information before you can do anything.

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You don't have to be a genius to know how to code. You need to be determined.

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Addition, subtraction, that's about it.

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You should probably know your multiplication tables.

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You don't have to be a genius to code.

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Do you have to be genius to read? Do you have to be genius to do math?

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No.

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No.

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I think if someone had told me that software is really about humanity,

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that it's really about helping people by using computer technology.

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It would have changed my outlook a lot earlier.

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Whether you are trying to make a lot of money or whether you just want to change the world,

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computer programming is an incredibly empowering skill to learn.

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To be able to actually come up with an idea and then see it in your hands,

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and then be able to press a button and then have it be in millions of people's hands...

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I think we're the first generation in the world that's really ever had that kind of experience.

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The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

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You know you are going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.

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I think it's amazing.

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It's the closest thing we have to a superpower.

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Great coders are today's rockstars!

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That's it!