Cracking the code: getting IT in the classroom

Let’s Talk Tech is a monthly podcast that explores the latest emerging technologies, the people behind them and how these trends will affect the way we work, live and play. In this episode, show host Dave Miller interviews one of the nation's leading experts on the front lines of efforts to integrate computer science in the classroom and a Mississippi entrepreneur who is co-founder of the non-profit Base Camp Coding Academy, which provides minority high school graduates with a fast-paced, year-long program that readies them for IT-related jobs. Learn how these specialized classroom and vocational training programs promise to help alleviate the shortage in skilled computer programmers in the U.S. workforce and enable students to develop more critical thinking and problem-solving skills.