Coding is a valuable asset in pretty much any business environment. And the good news is, learning to code doesn’t require an expensive and lengthy qualification.

It never ceases to amaze me when I see a middle school student excelling at virtual robot simulations, a seventh grader using computer code to solve a STEM problem, or an eighth-grade robotics team ...

But no matter what AI can do, humans are still in demand to do the programming work. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median pay for computer programmers is $93,000 a year.

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