Whenever we discuss the need for more coding education, our eyes tend to look overseas at countries where education, in general, tends to be more of a priority. We look at the youth in these countries as the future of our workforce, especially if we don’t improve our coding education efforts. To get an idea of what the state of coding education looks like overseas, consider a recent article for the National titled “For one Dubai start-up, computer coding is child’s play.”

Hareth Al Bustani of the National writes, “On one side of the room, children are building worlds and on the other, websites. A boy taps away at his keyboard, typing commands and tying up loose ends. He appears in his element, even if the name of the language he is using – Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) – would be enough to put most people off. ‘I’m making a ninja profile page,’ says Eissa Al Mulla, a nine-year-old Emirati, pointing to a screenful of text commands. He switches over to a preview of the web page and, like magic, it all makes sense. ‘I have to insert a picture and then write something about him, and then his interests, jobs and where he’s lived,’ says Eissa. The ninja, according to the webpage, is 23. ‘He likes backflips, teriyaki steak and lurking in the darkness. His jobs are protecting the city, defending against enemies and chopping fruit with his sword. He’s lived in Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo,’ reads Eissa. The page is basic – a white background, one image and text of varying sizes and formatting – but Eissa has built it entirely using code. ‘It’s quite simple; it’s not that hard really. I’m just using indents to make it more organised.’ Eissa is on just his second day at the Coding Circle, an educational start-up based at Impact Hub Dubai. The web development course, which teaches HTML, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and JavaScript, is taught mainly by Sajjad Kamal, 26.”

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