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EPISODE · Feb 10, 2017 · 43 MIN

Do I really need to learn to code?

from Too Embarrassed to Ask · host Recode

Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi and Girls Who Code CEO Reshma Saujani talk with Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Lauren Goode about their efforts to expand coding education, particularly in the United States. Partovi says teaching more kids of all backgrounds to code will go a long way toward fixing job anxiety in America, while Saujani says it's vitally important to simultaneously make sure that girls and women feel welcome in the computer science classroom. They outline some of the best ways to start learning to code, and offer differing views on how the Trump administration and the new Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, will affect tech literacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi and Girls Who Code CEO Reshma Saujani talk with Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Lauren Goode about their efforts to expand coding education, particularly in the United States. Partovi says teaching more kids of all backgrounds to code will go a long way toward fixing job anxiety in America, while Saujani says it's vitally important to simultaneously make sure that girls and women feel welcome in the computer science classroom. They outline some of the best ways to start learning to code, and offer differing views on how the Trump administration and the new Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, will affect tech literacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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