TEACH THE WORLD TO CODE

摘要

When you tap a smartphone app or open a web page, do you understand the technology behind the screen? Do you speak HTML5 or JavaScript? Could you hack into a wi-fi network or install a virus? If the answer to any of these questions is 'no', Kathryn Parsons wants to give you a crash course in digital skills. She has spent nearly five years on a mission to teach the world to look beyond their screens and see the languages that power the internet. In 2011, Parsons co-founded Decoded, a company that teaches anyone to code in a day, to bring "digital enlightenment" to the masses. "I saw that technology was changing lives and businesses -there wasn't a facet of life that was unaffected," she says. "But just 1% of people understood what was happening behind the screen."