Benefit of learning to code – Champion Coders

Benefit of learning to code at a young age

Creativity

When you learn a language, you use it to express yourself. The same is true with code. Computer coding empowers kids to not only consume digital media and technology, but to create it. Instead of simply playing a video game or using an app, they can imagine making their own video game, or envision what their own website, or app might look like—and they’ll have the outlet for expression.

Self Confidence

Kids can feel successful at getting a computer to do what they tell it to do. This foundation can set kids up for a lifetime of successful use and management of the technology in their everyday lives.

Problem Solving

Learning to code gives kids a new perspective on problem solving. They can’t whine, complain, or negotiate their way out of a problem with a computer. They must use logic and deductive reasoning to solve it. They gain confidence in themselves, knowing that problems can be solved if they keep trying. And they work on problems individually and together, which helps them build a well-rounded problem solving skill set.

Teamwork

There’s a stereotype of coders sitting in a room wearing headphones, not interacting with the real world. Well, Don’t worry parents :). Our students at Champion Coders are experiencing something completely different. They’re connecting with peers who share their interests and they are working together on projects, learning valuable social skills and teamwork along the way.

At Champion Coders, we do not set individual challenge for our students but team challenge instead as we want our students to learn work to collaborate with one another.

Persistence

Learning to code, like any new discipline, is a challenge. Thus, tackling complex problems—and making mistakes along the way—can be very frustrating.

Coding teaches the valuable skill of persistence in the face of such challenges. Learning how to problem solve and look for solutions through research and collaboration builds this highly desirable skill.

Job Opportunities

The current generation of children will need to be literate in technology in order to be competitive in the future job market. Not knowing how to code will be comparable to not knowing how to speak English.

Most jobs require the knowledge of basic IT skills, while even retail and fast food jobs require the use of technology and computers. Coding specialists are well-paid and highly sought-after on the current market, and opportunities for these skilled employees will expand in the future.

Technology is moving faster, and almost everything is shifting to computers nowadays. You have to adapt and so should your kids.

Teaching them how to code is the first step in preparing them for a world that requires everyone to talk to computers in order to solve problems from things as mundane as checking the weather to flying other humans into the stars.
So start them young. Who knows, you might have just been grooming the next Bill Gates, or the new Mark Zuckerberg.

FUTURE OF CODING

Coding is the language of the future

Coding as a career option is in high demand currently and in the future due to the growth of the digital world.

Is coding a useful qualification?

Put simply, yes. As computers become part of everyday life, it makes sense that companies are coming to rely on their own in-house computer programmers.
A 2015 study found there were as many as seven million job openings in the US that required coding skills and that coding jobs are growing in number around 12% faster than the market average. This isn’t a trend that’s going away. Based on the study report issued by the Bureau of Labour of the United States, by 2020, there will be a shortage of around 1 million coders just in the USA.
Based on CodersDojo Europe Press, The European Commission is worried that as many as 825,000 digital jobs may be unfilled in the EU by 2020 as employees are unable to find workers who possess the right skills.

But isn’t coding just for the technology sector?

Not anymore. It’s estimated that around half of all job openings for coders are in non-tech industries, including finance, manufacturing and healthcare. If you think about it, every company that uses computers, needs someone to instruct those computers.