Coding Is the New Literacy
Computer Science Deserves a Place in K-12 Education
If you were surfing the Internet in 2004, you wouldn’t have known that the sophisticated music hosting and stock graphics websites you stumbled upon were being run by a 12-year-old hobbyist.
I was that 12-year-old. After school, I’d prioritize building websites over doing my reading comprehension questions that were due the next day.
After being inspired by hobbyist-created music websites, I began teaching myself the coding languages HTML and CSS. Even then, I had no idea what “computer science” was. Because my middle school and high school in La Puente, a lower-income …
