Zach Latta is the founder of Hack Club (hackclub.com). Zach's a high school dropout who's now helped 30k high school students around the world start their own coding clubs. He also helped build the much-beloved "yo" texting app in 2014. This is a fun conversation about coding in school, being a kid, the importance of friendship in learning, and realizing that you can make awesome stuff with awesome people in this world.
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01/18/24 • 59 min
The CS Primer Show - E17: 1000 Hours Away From Being Exceptional
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So, Zach, you have been made the czar, the education czar of the United States, let's say, just to not be ridiculous, just the US. And the the question put to you is that should we have mandatory computer science education in schools just like we have mandatory mathematics education. Right? Like, obviously, there's some flexibility around that. It's not, like, mandatory through all levels of mathematics up to grade 12 or whatever, but there is some
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