Code.org

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Code.org
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purpose Improving American computer education
Chair: Hadi Partovi and Ali Partovi
Executive Director: Hadi Partovi
Establishment date: January 2013
Seat : Seattle , WA, USA
Website: code.org

Code.org is founded in the USA in 2013 non-profit organization ( 501 (c) (3) ) and the same site , the maximum number of people, especially children for the subject computer science (in English "Computer Science") and programming inspire want. According to the founders of the German initiative “Everyone can program”, inspired by their success, Code.org managed to collect more than 10 million dollars in donations by 2014 alone and to build a team of 36 employees, including 14 full-time positions. An important success factor was to virally spreading YouTube videos in which celebrities like Mark Zuckerberg , Bill Gates , Barack Obama , Bill Clinton and Chris Bosh the invitation competed "Learn to code". As an initial result, programming had already been integrated into school lessons in five American states by 2014.

The website contains freely accessible introductions and exercises for programming. The initiative also aims to use Code.org material in computer science classes.

history

Code.org was founded in January 2013 by Hadi and Ali Partovi as a non-profit organization that focuses on making the creation of your own computer programs more accessible. The initial focus was on creating a database of all computer science curricula in schools in the United States. At the time, Hadi Partovi said that about ninety percent of US schools do not teach programming , even though it is a "fundamental field" of our information society. The idea for Code.org came from Hadi, who explains that the death of Steve Jobs in 2011 was a trigger to ponder his own potential legacy. At the end of February 2013, one month after the site started, they posted a video with Mark Zuckerberg , Bill Gates , Jack Dorsey and other programmers and entrepreneurs who emphasized the importance of programming. The video went viral and received a lot of positive attention. Partovi raised over millions of dollars in support for Code.org from various tech companies and tech startups. In 2014 Code.org published a one-hour tutorial in which a Flappy Bird video game was implemented and designed using the visual block-based language of the site. Code.org also published programming exercises are the characters from the Disney film The Ice Queen - Fully unabashedly turned (original title "Frozen"). Other topics were Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies . December 2014 Code.org led a successful Indiegogo - Crowdfunding campaign, which earned more than $ 5 million. Overall, Code.org has reached around 100 million students. On November 16, 2015, Microsoft announced a partnership with Code.org to launch a programming tutorial for children using Minecraft .

One of Code.org's important lobbying efforts with state lawmakers is to ensure that computer programming classes are not categorized as foreign language classes but as science classes to ensure that computer courses teach concepts beyond programming.

Hour of Code

During Computer Science Education Week, December 9-15, Code.org launched the Hour of Code Challenge on the Code.org website to teach computer science to students with short programming tasks. Hour of Code requires putting together short pieces of code in the Blockly programming language , a graphical programming language similar to Scratch .

The initiative was announced about two months in advance and, when launched, had the support of the President of the United States, Barack Obama, and the chairmen of technology companies such as Microsoft and Apple . Approximately 20 million people took part in the initiative and over 600 million lines of code were written. The Hour of Code offered some of the participating schools incentives such as fifty laptops or a conference call with tech luminaries like Bill Gates or Jack Dorsey .

By October 2014, approximately 40 million students had attended an Hour of Code lesson, and another Hour of Code was held in December 2014. Hour of Code lessons were also offered here in Apple retail stores.

Programming in the curriculum

The first step in the organization's efforts on school curricula was to work with US school districts to bring programming into the curriculum. Most US schools didn't offer programming classes at the time. The next step was the creation of free online teaching and learning materials for schools for the introduction of the computer science classes. By 2014, Code.org had launched computer courses in thirty US school districts, reaching approximately 5% (approximately two million) of all students in US public schools. In 2015, Code.org trained around 15,000 teachers to teach computer science, reaching around 600,000 more students who previously had no access to programming. A high percentage of them either belonged to minorities or were female. That year Code.org partnered with approximately seventy of the largest US school districts (including the seven largest). Code.org also partnered with other private institutions to provide additional computer learning materials and opportunities. In 2015, six million students enrolled in Code.org classes. Code.org also partnered with College Board to offer a range of advanced computer programming courses. The primary platform used in Code.org is Code Studio , which enables the underlying concepts of programming by plugging together logic blocks.

Attempt to transfer it to Germany

The great success of Code.org in the English-speaking area suggested that the principle should be transferred to Germany by similar means. To this end, the German initiative Everyone can program was founded, which is intended to help as many people as possible to participate in the further development of the digital society in German-speaking countries . The project was started in the Science Year 2014 (The Digital Society) by the science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar and the Managing Director of the Fraunhofer IUK Technology Association, Thomes Bendig, with funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . In addition to some of its own offers, the project's website is intended to bundle and publicize existing initiatives.

development

Yogeshwar and Bendig said they had the idea for the project during a joint conversation. They felt encouraged by the results of the “Code.org” website developed in the USA in 2013, which they rate as extremely successful. The didactic concept was developed by them in collaboration with the NAND studio and the initiative was then started as part of the Science Year.

The introductory event for “Everyone can program” took place on June 10, 2014 in Berlin. In addition to many smaller events, there were also some larger projects as part of the initiative. In June 2015, a brochure was published for schools with the title “Shaping the digital society - media competence and programming for teaching practice” with information on how to organize lessons and prepared worksheets. The first Coding Day was held on July 7, 2015 as part of the IdeenExpo 2015 in Hanover. On November 4, 2015 from was Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems developed Project Open Roberta presented, which as an extension of the project Roberta - Learning with robots children and young people playing for the programming of robots to inspire.

Critics object to the concept behind “Anyone can program” that the highly complex process of programming would be viewed in a simplistic way. Instead of having programming experience as early as possible, basic skills such as reading and arithmetic should be taught better as a prerequisite for realistically assessing one's own abilities and learning professional programming.

Sponsoring association

As a non-profit sponsor of the initiative, “Start Coding e. V. “founded. The association should act as a contact person and pioneer. Its board consists of Thomas Bendig (first chairman) and Ali Baslik, Henning Köhler and Stephan Thiel as deputy chairmen. The association's advisory board, consisting of Gesche Joost , Lars Klingbeil, Lena-Sophie Müller, Niels Pinkwart and Ranga Yogeshwar, is to support the initiative in technical and strategic questions .

Ambassadors and supporters

The project is supported by prominent ambassadors and private entrepreneurs. At the official start, the Federal Minister of Economics, Sigmar Gabriel, gave a 15-minute keynote speech . He stated that he saw this as "an opportunity to counteract the shortage of skilled workers in the IT industry." He also stated that "the request to learn programming languages ​​is not only aimed at a small group of nerds ."

A series of celebrity YouTube videos calling for people to learn to code were also released as part of the media campaign to launch the initiative. In addition to Sigmar Gabriel and Ranga Yogeshwar, a number of other celebrities act as ambassadors for the initiative, including Maybrit Illner , Bernhard Hoëcker , Ulrich Walter , Wolfgang Heckl , Diana zur Löwen and Y-Titty .

Web links

Individual evidence

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