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“...to many parents... coding looks less like an extracurricular activity and more like a basic life skill…”
“...Parents love the idea of giving children something to do with computers that they see as productive, Mr. Pearce said. “We have any number of parents who say, ‘I can’t take my kid playing one more hour of video games,’ ” he said. But if the children are exploring coding, the parents tell him, " ‘I can live with that all night long.’ ”
“Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding”
-New York Times, April 14, 2014
“...Parents love the idea of giving children something to do with computers that they see as productive, Mr. Pearce said. “We have any number of parents who say, ‘I can’t take my kid playing one more hour of video games,’ ” he said. But if the children are exploring coding, the parents tell him, " ‘I can live with that all night long.’ ”
“Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding”
-New York Times, April 14, 2014