The UK is the first G8 country to include computer science education in its national curriculum, and the move could serve as a test case for so many other nations across the globe, including the United States. As computing comes to dominate our world, programming skills are more valuable than ever, but even the U.S.–the center of the technology universe–is still struggling to bring coding into the classroom. Part of the problem is that, before students learn how to code, their teachers must learn too. Pulling all that off is a massive endeavor. Part of the problem is that, before students learn how to code, their teachers must learn too. That’s why many UK schools are turning to Codecademy, a three-year-old startup based in New York City. Codecademy offers free coding classes over the internet in a variety of programming languages

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