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>> A program is a recipe for a computer.
A recipe is a series of steps for a stove.
The third day of camp we do the Lego Robotics and they build the robot
and they program it to move forward.
They program it to talk.
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It's -- they -- it really engages their imagination.
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>> Last year, I took computer science because it interests me.
I like how you can on a computer just write stuff and basically create whatever you want.
>> I started taking computer science classes because that was just something
that was just really different from like the math
and like history, literature, whatever classes.
So I didn't know what it was.
It just seemed really interesting.
>> I would say ever since I first got my computer, I've always been interested
like game wise, playing games and stuff like that.
But then not until like the 6th grade, I started getting interested into like how it works,
like the mechanics, and like the hardware.
And then further on the software, like the programming side of it.
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>> For students who are new to coding, it's like you're suddenly in the world
where you don't speak the language.
So they can see the words on the screen and they can even read and sound them out
but it doesn't have meaning to them.
So it's really very great to see their attitude shift as they began to understand more
and more what the meanings are to what they type.
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>> I started playing around with the internet a little bit more and looking
at HTML and seeing how the HTML worked.
And it really got to be very interesting that, you know,
the code on the page could create these structures and layouts and interactions.
And it was just so fascinating to be able to type something
and see it happen almost instantly.
>> I guess it was kind of whenever that I kind of started messing
around with it and researching it by myself.
And I sort of seen more of the artistic aspects of it.
One of my friends who's been working with like games and stuff like that,
he had me play around with Unity and start like building landscapes.
And from that I got really interested in the computer science
and looked a little bit more into it and here I am.
I'm at [inaudible].
>> And I think most areas of computer science are that way.
You know, you've taken the tools.
You've got this amazing computer that you're able to do something with
and you've got the skills to actually program the computer as low level as you want to go
to create something wonderful, so it's very creative.
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>> Pretty much, I think being that the --
you know everything is starting to lean on computers nowadays, I think I can actually,
you know, help the world out by, you know, being involved with research.
>> It's cliché but like everyone's like I want to change the world but like that's so possible
like in our industry and in that space to just -- like you can write a really small thing
but it -- so many people who can have access to it in minutes, in seconds,
and that's a really powerful position to be in.
>> Just to be able to start absolute scratch and solve a problem.
That is like this great, you know, it's a great feeling.
It is an ah ha moment.
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>> Everything is taking place within the higher education right now has a technology
underpinning, adaptive pathways, adaptive testing, adaptive interfaces, online learning.
All of this has a technology component and our role in this is to be a supporting partner
so that we can deploy it and change the face of higher education.
We increase our graduation rates, increase our students' success
and not do it a marginal fashion but to truly do it in a transformational fashion
where whole swats of our society now have access to higher education
in the format that they never had before.
Technology underpins all of that and I think the USG and it's 31 institutions are completely
on board and comfortable with using technology
to dramatically change how we deliver a learning experience to our students.
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