Code.org
Code.org first exploded on the CS education scene in Feb 2013 with its first video featuring Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates talking about computer science. 10 months later, it launched an Hour of Code campaign that has taken the world by storm. Precursor -> Blockly
The original vision of Code.org was to bring computer programming into the mainstream dialogue and raise national awareness about this issue. But with thousands of schools asking for our help, I embarked to create a larger organization and started fundraising for its larger vision: to bring CS to every American public school, district by district, city by city, until it becomes a core tenet of US education. (O nly 10% of K-12 schools teach CS today.) It will cost $300 million to solve this problem if schools, parents, and stude nts are engaged.
- Partovi, H.: Transforming US Education with Computer Science. In: Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. pp. 5–6 ACM, New York, NY, USA (2014).
