Playing with coding


Lesson in progres: Students from Henry Gurney Prison School learning the basics of programming during a lesson. Skills in coding are a likely requirement for jobs in the future.

TWENTY FIVE thousand young Malaysians recently took part in the Hour of Code, a basic programming tutorial held for the third time in the Asia-Pacific region.

Managed by Microsoft Corporation and Code.org, a non-profit organisation, to broaden global participation in computer science, the tutorial introduced coding using the popular video game Minecraft, as a basis.

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