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05-02-2016, 10:56 AM
5 ways to create an environment that helps adults learn to love coding
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If you want adults to learn to code, stop serving pizza.
That's just one of the lessons Kathryn Parsons, cofounder and co-CEO of global coding education provider Decoded, has learnt while helping people make the leap into programming.*
**t everyone will learn to code as an obsessed teenager in their bedroom. Some will need to learn digital skills as part of a change mid-career, while others may be managers fed up with **t k**wing what their developers do all day, and coding education needs to work for them too.
SEE ALSO: Supermodel Karlie Kloss launches summer school for girls to learn code (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/karlie-kloss-code/)
Speaking with Mashable Australia at the CeBIT tech**logy conference in Sydney Monday, Parsons shared some of the tactics her company, which famously claims to teach coding in one day (https://decoded.com/en-au/), uses to help people overcome their fears and get started with digital skills. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/02/4-ways-learn-coding/)
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If you want adults to learn to code, stop serving pizza.
That's just one of the lessons Kathryn Parsons, cofounder and co-CEO of global coding education provider Decoded, has learnt while helping people make the leap into programming.*
**t everyone will learn to code as an obsessed teenager in their bedroom. Some will need to learn digital skills as part of a change mid-career, while others may be managers fed up with **t k**wing what their developers do all day, and coding education needs to work for them too.
SEE ALSO: Supermodel Karlie Kloss launches summer school for girls to learn code (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/karlie-kloss-code/)
Speaking with Mashable Australia at the CeBIT tech**logy conference in Sydney Monday, Parsons shared some of the tactics her company, which famously claims to teach coding in one day (https://decoded.com/en-au/), uses to help people overcome their fears and get started with digital skills. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/02/4-ways-learn-coding/)
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