Meant to post this earlier after learning about it, but it's my Finals period so I've been pretty hectic, finally have a moment today.

http://code.org/educate/hoc

http://csedweek.org/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/hour-of-code-campaign-gets-wild-response-from-kids-trying-out-computer-science/2013/12/10/7b9913ec-61db-11e3-bf45-61f69f54fc5f_story.html

Hour of Code is an initiative by Code.org, a non-profit organization that started this year to promote the importance of teaching computer programming in K-12 grades. The Hour of Code initiative got support by the US President, Teacher's Unions, and various technology companies and leaders (Like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates).

The result?

New York City is going to train 120 teachers in computer programming for K-12.

The Mayor of Chicago has said that he will make computer programming a core requirement for high school as well as offer courses in it for K-8.

I definitely did more than an hour of code this week, having finished up 3 final projects in programming classes

Have you done an hour of coding this week and what are your thoughts on teaching programming as a core curriculum in K-12?