Chris Bosh may be loved for his on-court life, but he wants to shift attention to a lesser known skill of his. In an op-ed piece for Wired, the Miami Heat baller pushes the importance of kids learning not only how to dribble and shoot, but how to code:
I get it. There seems to be something silly about asking everyone — from the homeless to really young kids — to learn to code. There are deeper things that need to be fixed in the “system” too.
But I don’t think that means we should dismiss the value of learning to code.
Being a kid of the 1990s and living in a house run by tech-savvy parents, I began to notice that the world around me was spinning on an axis powered by varying patterns of 1s and 0s. We’d be fools to ignore the power of mastering the designing and coding of those patterns. If brute physical strength ran one era, and automation the next, this is the only way we can keep up. Most jobs of the future will be awarded to the ones who know how to code.
We use code every time we’re on the phone, on the web, out shopping — it’s become how our world is run. So I take comfort in having a basic understanding of how something as big as this works.
This isn’t the first time Bosh is speaking out on behalf of the tech world. In a video for Code.org, he shared that he got acquainted with coding way before his hooping accolades racked up. Watch the short Code.org video segment below and read the entire op-ed on Wired.
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