Coding boot camps are trending all throughout the country. This is a clear indicator of the importance many are putting on young people being able to code as a job skill. Miriam Jordan of the Wall Street Journal touches on this in a new article titled “Coding ‘Boot Camp’ Opens High-Tech Doors.”

Jordan writes, “A few months ago, Edgar Cordova was a college student piling up debt and struggling to balance his studies with odd jobs. Today, the 20-year-old is working for a Boulder software developer. ‘For the first time, I can afford things I need,’ said Mr. Cordova, the son of a janitor. What changed his trajectory is SeedPaths, a computer-coding “boot camp” that runs an eight-week course for low-income adults, with the help of federal funds. The Denver company partners with county workforce centers, which tap the federal Workforce Investment Act to cover the $6,000 cost. Tech companies, the health-care industry and other sectors are competing fiercely for individuals proficient in software languages used to build everything from websites to mobile apps. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that hiring of software developers, who earned a median $90,000 in 2012, will grow at a rate twice as fast as the average for all occupations through 2022. To meet this demand, coding academies are sprouting up, offering training stretching from a few weeks to several months and costing as much as $20,000.”

The Deseret News also looks at coding boot camps in an article titled “The few, the proudly employed, the coding boot camp graduates.” Matthew Jelalian of the Deseret News writes, “According to SkilledUp.com, there are over 70 coding boot camps nationwide. Most of them are found in the Western United States with a few in Canada and Europe. Coding boot camp coursework can last anywhere between six and 12 weeks and cost around $5,000 to $10,000 to complete. The best-selling point of these boot camps, however, is their job placement. Coding Campus — a newer boot camp in Provo, Utah, with smaller class sizes of five to 10 students — claims a 93 percent job placement of graduates. According to Coding Campus’ program director, Sariah Masterson, the prospects of employment is what motivates students to get into the program and finish.”

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Coding is becoming an increasingly essential skill to have in this economy that relies more and more on technology. According to Iowa Public Radio, there are schools who consider coding so important that they’re teaching it to their kindergarteners. Iowa Public Radio’s Amy Mayer details this in a new article titled “Computer Coding Complements Common Core.”

Mayer writes, “Denise Crawford directs the Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching at Iowa State. She says these educational goals are part of the common core, even if coding per se is not. Teaching kids programming isn’t new, but Crawford says it’s easier than ever because the technologies are more user friendly, even for younger kids. And programming can sometimes click with a student who doesn’t shine in other academic areas. ‘In coding, we’re going to require students to think different than how we typically maybe are asking them to think during the school day,’ Crawford says. And she says that can have a profound impact. ‘This one spark, what if this hits with one student that otherwise wouldn’t have academically been interested in something like that? It seems worth it.’ From kindergarten to fifth grade, the students get another benefit of the coding sessions. They are encouraged to collaborate, and that means students learning from their peers.”

While schools are focusing more attention on coding, others are finding new ways to encourage kids to practice coding recreationally. According to The Next Web, BBC is updating its Doctor Who inspired online coding game, The Doctor and the Dalek. Abhimanyu Ghoshal of The Next Web writes, “The BBC has updated its online game The Doctor and the Dalek with four new levels, and is launching free iPad and Android tablet versions of the Doctor Who-themed title… The Doctor will need several new abilities to overcome his enemies in the new levels, which can be unlocked by solving a series of coding puzzles, linked to the new computing curriculum in the UK. These focus on Boolean logic, introducing ‘if’ statements with a range of variables that gradually increase in complexity as users become more advanced.”

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