Portuguese school sets world record for largest programming lesson


Students participate in an event to attempt to break the Guinness Record for the worlds largest computer programming lesson at a university in Lisbon Portugal October 12 2024. REUTERSRodrigo Antunes

Students participate in an event to attempt to break the Guinness Record for the world's largest computer programming lesson at a university in Lisbon, Portugal, October 12, 2024. REUTERS/Rodrigo Antunes

LISBON (Reuters) - Nearly 1,700 students aged between 12 and 67 gathered at the University of Lisbon's IST school of technology on Saturday to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest computer programming lesson in a single venue.

The previous record grouped 724 participants in Dallas, in the United States, on Oct. 31, 2016.


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