Look who's coding!
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The document highlights the stories of several high-profile individuals, including supermodel Karlie Kloss, app developer Donald Rumsfeld, NBA star Chris Bosh, and rapper will.i.am, who all learned to code despite their successful careers in other fields. It emphasizes the importance of coding as a valuable skill and how these figures advocate for technology education, particularly for young people. The main message encourages readers to consider learning to code themselves.
Look who's coding!
- 1. Look who’s coding! Joey Rigor Kontak Mobile Apps February 12, 2016
- 2. Coders are nerds! Not anymore. They are today’s rock stars.
- 3. Without them? Well, you’ll just be using your phone to call mom. No iPhones, no apps, no nothing.
- 4. But we’ll not be talking about Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey or any of the billionaire jocks that build your smartphone and your apps.
- 5. We will be talking about a supermodel, an NBA star and even a former defence chief.
- 6. This is a story of why they learned to code.
- 7. Let’s start with the prettiest. Of course.
- 8. Karlie Kloss. The fashionista nerd. Born August 3, 1992, 24-year old Karlie is one of the top supermodels today. Has Danish roots. Her father is a doctor and as a child hoped to be one. Karlie attended Webster Groves High School in her hometown in St. Louis. Started modelling at age 14 when she was "discovered at a local benefit runway show” in 2006.
- 9. She enrolled in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study of New York University in 2015 to start her learning journey. Karl wanted to learn how technology works. Admits she is a nerd inside the fashionable clothes she wore on the catwalk. Wished to have started as a kid but still went on to learn code on her own during breaks in her fashion gigs.
- 10. “With code is like having superpowers. You can build anything.” Even setup “Kode with Karlie” scholarship to help young girls learn how to code. Beauty and brains. With a heart in helping others discover her interest in using technology to build things.
- 11. Ronald Rumsfeld. Because of a passion to a game. ”I’ve done business, politics, and war. Now I’m trying my hand at mobile gaming.” At 83 years old, Donald Rumsfeld, veteran of three Republican administrations and the pharmaceutical industry, is starting a new career as an app developer in 2015.
- 12. He did not actually code the game but learned about designing and writing code while assisting in the development of his game app. It’s a card game that dates back to the Second World War. A “devilish” version of Solitaire that an aide of Winston Churchill taught Rumsfeld.
- 13. After retiring, he pursued the the demanding and complex game with the tenacity of a former defence chief during the time when America were at war at different fronts. A great way of keeping his mind keen and sharp during his sunset years. It was this passion that he did not want the game forgotten. So at 83, he did what other tech geeks knew how, he build an app.
- 14. Chris Bosh. What if basketball doesn’t work out for me? Chris Bosh, born March 24, 1984, is a five- time NBA All-Star player currently playing for the Miami Heat. Always liked basketball since he was a kid. Was accepted to Georgia Tech but quit to go professional. While busy playing, he was learning how to program on his own.
- 15. In high school, he joined a club called Wizkids, a computer graphics club. At 7 feet tall, he got teased a lot since he does’t look like the typical computer nerd. Even as a basketball superstar, he still kept his interest in coding and continued to learn. Always remembered why he learned in the first place. This is the main reason Chris is an avid advocate to Code.org, evangelising kids to learn how to code.
- 16. Will.i.am. The rapper that builds tech products. Born William James Adams to a single mother in a poor community in Los Angeles. He began his music career at high school and later formed the Black Eyed Peas. Had a different strategy to sell themselves by rapping on college campuses "until every single college kid" knew them. Continued this style years later by selling a “brand not a band” to companies to endorse their products.
- 17. As a musician, producer, and advocate for education, he is an enthusiastic user of technology in his professional and personal life. He is one of the founder in Beats Electronics, the creators of Beats by Dre™ headphones. Will.i.am also developed his i.am+ foto.sosho camera accessory for iPhone4/4s and iPhone 5. Even after designing and building numerous tech products, he admits he is still learning how to really code. He is bewitched by the “superpower” of code. Hoped one day to build an app “even if it takes ten years to do it”.
- 18. Cory Booker. The U.S. Senator who can code. Cory Booker is an American politician and a junior United States Senator from New Jersey. He attended Stanford University, played college football and received a Bachelor of Arts in political science and a Master of Arts in sociology. He also attend the University of Oxford and later received his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.
- 19. This education in top universities made him realise the importance of learning technology. He is an advocate of code.org mission to teach computer science in American schools to make them better prepared for the digital world. Learned to code on his own. During a visit to the organisation’s HQ, Senator Booker surprised everyone by making a simple app in JavaScript.
- 20. There you go. People who had already excelled in their own fields of endeavour still believed on the importance of learning how to code. Maybe we should, too.
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