Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (left) surprised delegates and staff with his first appearance at GitHub Universe, including GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke. - PHOTO: GITHUB via The Straits Times/ANN
SAN FRANCISCO: An increasing number of people in Singapore are creating computer code, underscoring years of government efforts to boost programming expertise to support the nation’s place as a digital hub.
Almost one million residents – or one in six of the 5.9 million population – have latched on to coding, the highest ratio in the world and a fourfold rise from 260,000 in 2019.
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