As with any acquisition of special skills—foreign languages, musical instruments, sports—we believe that the best coders start at an early age.
Teaching young people to code transforms them from passive users to technological innovators.
Coding Courses for Teenagers and Children are offered during the school holidays as well as term time.
There are over half a million computer programming jobs in the US and the UK, and those sectors are projected to continue to grow by 20% over the next ten years.
Even if your child hasn’t expressed an interest in becoming an IT professional, he or she still stands to benefit from learning how to code. No matter which field your child pursues, he or she will be expected to know how to interact with technology. With the introduction of Computer Science GCSE more students will be equipped with the necessary skills for the future.
Many successful businesspeople learned to code when they were children. In fact, you may know some of them: Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Michael Dell, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerburg all began coding as youngsters. Other technology superstars such as Marissa Mayer (one of the first employees at Google, and now CEO of Yahoo!) and Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon) did not learn to code as children, but had a love of technology from an early age, and both went on to graduate from Ivy League universities with degrees in computer science.
While your child may or may not want to become a professional coder, learning the skill is just as essential as playing a sport or mastering a musical instrument. By learning to code from an early age, children expand their horizons and increase their skillset – all of which are needed to become well developed children and successful adults.
Computer programming is much more than learning how to understand and write code. By learning to code from a young age, children inherit a whole host of secondary skills that are beneficial to any career.
Here are a just a few:
Whether it’s understanding why a program won’t run or learning how to debug a program, problem-solving is a huge part of coding. Learning how to resolve technical issues often involves conversations, reading how-tos, practicing logical thought and troubleshooting, all of which are transferable skills.
While coding may seem like a mix of symbols – slashes and colons, to name a few – coding actually allows children to express their creativity. By learning to code, children can make anything from puzzles, stories with animated illustrations and interactive games; the creative possibilities are endless.
Computer code is not the mystery it appears to be; rather, it’s merely a foreign language. By learning how to read, write, and run code from an early age, children are really acquiring a second language – and one that can help them learn other computer languages easily in the future.
Children are quick to understand that they live in a digital world, and they’re even quicker to understand just how all of the technology around them works. When they learn to create code of their own, they are no longer passive recipients of the technology around them, but drivers of the digital age.
We couldn’t be more thrilled that coding is now part of the official curriculum in primary and secondary schools in the UK. However, we also realise the impact this has had on schools’ staffing needs.
To help address the current shortage of skilled IT teachers in British schools, we’re offering an array of teacher training and supplemental courses to get students and educators up to speed, including:
For more information about coding for children and teenagers call us on 020 7266 6575 or email us at info@bermotech.com
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