Tony Zanders Dec 29, 2014
With foreign language degree programs going on the chopping block across the country, and media, business and education leaders sensationalizing the need for a million coders by 2020, one would assume that investment in foreign language training should decrease to fund teaching kids how to code. But is there more to the relationship between human languages and programming languages than meets the eye? In the digital age, the impact of immigration and globalization provides new context for the role of foreign language training, as these two entrepreneurs realized.
via Is Foreign Language Training the Key to Creating More Coders? | EdSurge News.