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2010s public influence campaign

"Learn to Code" was a slogan and a series of public influence campaigns during the 2010s that encouraged the development of computer programming skills in an economy increasingly centered on information technology. The campaigns led to endorsements from politicians, the inclusion of programming in state school curricula, and the proliferation of coding bootcamps. Learning to code has a long history, with moments of enthusiasm and anxiety about computational literacy and the best methods to learn programming skills. A backlash erupted in 2019 in the form of online harassment of laid-off American journalists. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Learn to CodeA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Neural Transfer Learning for Repairing Security Vulnerabilities in C CodeInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Learning PythonThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Emergence of simple-cell receptive field properties by learning a sparse code for natural imagesCited 4,511 times
  5. Go sideways: CodecademyA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Code.orgA closely related topic

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🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. Context
  2. Codecademy and Code.org
  3. Policy impact
  4. Training outcomes
  5. Harassment of journalists
  6. Aftermath

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

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