Computer coding classes: Many educators want to turn coding into a new kind of literacy — a fundamental applied skill, a mode of inquiry and expression — that everybody should know.

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This week, thousands of events around the world are encouraging computer-coding literacy. "Coding is really about creative self-expression and storytelling," says Mitchel Resnick of MIT's Media Lab.

Big changes are under way in computer science lessons - but some experts think pupils learn best when teachers take a back seat.

So here I was in class, feeling that same feeling, with the mounting fear that on top of my math inadequacy, my computer could randomly implode at any time because I was touching it.

Prabakaran says she fell in love with coding after taking an introductory computer science class as a freshman. "Coding in the simplest term is just telling a computer what to do,” she said.

Big changes are under way in computer science lessons - but some experts think pupils learn best when teachers take a back seat.

Coding apps and toys may motivate kids and improve their computer science confidence, but they are unlikely to work miracles.

Coding for kids: schoolchildren learn computer programming Primary school children are staying on after class to learn the building blocks of computer programming ...