Everyday Something New

By : Lesely Chilcott Monday, while on a bumpy plane ride from LA to NY, I completed my first computer coding lesson online at  CodeAcademy . I signed up a few months ago when I first started directing a short documentary about kids and coding for  Code.org , a new website that aims to help kids (and adults) find computer coding classes near them as well as promote the idea that all kids should have access to a computer programming class at some point during their K-12 education. I would get friendly emails each week letting me know my coding lesson was ready for me. For a while I was too busy traveling and interviewing famous coders like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Square and Drew Houston of Dropbox and Gabe Newell at Valve, as well as people who love coding who you would not expect to like will.i.am and Chris Bosh. I met some fabulous women coders like Elena Silenok, who left Wall Street to start  Clothia.com , Vanessa Hurst, who thinks that to cha

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