Obama - the first US president, wrote a computer program

From 8 to 14 December 2014 in all over the world spend a week of computer education (Computer Science Education Week). The event is aimed to study computer science and programming of the general public, especially children, it is held with the active participation of the Code.org .

In our time, knowledge of computer science - an important skill that needs almost everything. Even supermodel Karlie Kloss boasts , she wrote a small program and was able to control the drone.

Participated in programming courses and President Obama himself. He wrote a very simple code in JavaScript, which draws a square on the screen. This symbolic action, Obama became the first president in US history, created a computer program. In other countries, there are precedents: for example, the president of the Estonian youth проходил programming courses .

Last year, Obama delivered a speech at YouTube , promoting participation in the Week of computer education. He appealed to his fellow citizens: "Development of these skills is not only important for your future. It is important for the future of our country. "

Teaching children about science is formed by the whole industry. Now available and educational games, and going three-month summer camps (butkampy), where people are trained in an intensive manner, so that after such a powerful course they can even get a job in a new specialty.

Code.org promotes the idea that the very foundations of programming can absorb everyone, even every child. In fact, modern tools let you do it and without prior technical training.

Obama attended the event, held Code.org for students 20 high schools in New Jersey. All offered to take an introductory lesson before writing code. The President did not watch it, and go from computer to computer between students. But then still performed several exercises using the tool Google Blockly , and wrote a line of code in JavaScript.

Incidentally, Obama even know about bubble sort .

Not far behind the US president and other politicians. For example, the Irish Prime Minister wrote a small demo on Blockly.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/242701/