The document outlines eight benefits of learning coding, emphasizing its role in understanding technology, enhancing career opportunities, and developing critical thinking skills. It highlights the job market demand for coders, the potential for higher salaries in computer science, and skills like problem-solving, creativity, resilience, and communication that coding fosters in children. Overall, teaching coding prepares kids for a tech-driven future and equips them with essential life skills.

1. 8 Benefits of Coding
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2. Coding Benefits
Coding helps you understand how technology works and
gives you the ability to create things. Knowing how to code
offers an abundance of technical skills that can help you
excel in the workforce, but that’s not all. Learning to code
provides much more than just coding literacy.

3. 1. Shortage of Coders
According to STEM education, there will be 2.4 million STEM
job positions available by 2018. 71% of those positions are
based on computing, but computer science majors make up
only 8% of STEM graduates.
There is a huge job market out there. By teaching your
children how to code, you are setting them up with the skills
and ability to fulfill those positions

4. 2. Numerous Career Options
Technology is used in every industry. Transportation,
construction, medical, and even the fashion industry needs
technology to thrive. Since technology is created by code,
learning to code opens up doors for all industries.
With a coding career, you can change industries while
staying as a web developer or data scientist.

5. 3. Computer Science Industry and Pay
Code.org stated that computer science majors can earn 40%
more than other majors. Additionally, computer science is
the fastest growing industry.
With the shortage of coders and the growth of this industry,
teaching your children how to code will provide them with
stable career options.

6. 4. Critical Thinking
is “the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order
to form a judgement.”
Critical thinking helps children make logical and well-thought
out judgements in any situation.
Coding helps children practice analyzing their situation
before coming to a conclusion. To be able to think critically
is a skill set that desired in every position.

7. 5. Problem Solving
is “the process of finding solutions to difficult or complex
issues.”
Problems occur everyday in numerous forms. Having the
ability to solve different problems is an important skill to
have. Through coding, children learn to think of different
solutions that are different from the conventional method.
Children start analyzing the different options and form
creative answers for their complex challenges.

8. 6. Creative Thinking
Creativity is something we all have, but we restrict ourselves
from expressing it.
Coding allows children to think differently and experiment
with their code. Experimentation helps them explore their
ideas, make mistakes, and learn from what they did.
As children experiment with their code, they strengthen their
technical skills while gaining the confidence to create.

9. 7. Resilience
is “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties.”
Coding teaches children to be resilience through a process
of trouble-shooting. Children try create their solutions and
test it to see if it works. During the first couple tries, the code
will not work. Now, they have to go back and fix it.
Resilience helps children bounce back more quickly after
they’ve fallen. This skill helps them respond and adapt to
adversity.

10. 8. Communication
Coding is similar to math, music, or Spanish, it’s essentially
another language. Through coding, students learn to
communicate with computers and people while improving
their writing skills.
Computers require broken, step-by-step instructions. By
understanding how to communicate with computers,
children learn how to clearly express their opinions,
concerns, and questions.

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