Google Teams With Pixar for Coding Lesson Featuring 'Inside Out'
Google and Pixar have teamed up to create a brief coding tutorial for anyone who is interested in learning some basic computer programming.
Computer science jobs often go unfilled. Google and Pixar blame the public perception that coding is a near impossible task, USA Today reports.
Danielle Feinberg, director of photography and lighting at Pixar, said it is important to get people to try coding because they might end up liking it, leading to greater job opportunities and more industry professionals to fill those positions.
Google and Pixar have created a new online tool to help people see that coding is not impossible. The website, which goes live Monday, was created just in time for Computer Science Education Week.
The website, called Made with Code, was created by Google. On the website, visitors will be able to replicate a scene from the new Pixar movie "Inside Out." Visitors will use the Blockly computer coding language to drag and drop commands in a block format to create a story based on the main character Riley.
Anyone can access the Made with Code website, but the project between Google and Pixar is focused on getting girls interested in coding. In middle school, 74 percent of girls express interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) courses. By high school, only 0.3 percent of those girls follow through on that interest though.
A poll conducted by Gallup and commissioned by Google also showed that girls don't think they are right for computer science careers. They feel like these jobs are made for white males. Just 18 percent of girls said they were "very likely" to pursue computer science in the future, while 35 percent of boys said they would.
The very basic Made with Code website shows visitors three stages of coding, including sequencing, looping and if/then scenarios. Every time a user creates a successful animation scene, he or she is rewarded with a scene from the movie.
Last year, Made with Code allowed girls to create a virtual holiday light show outside the White House.
President Obama has urged schools to incorporate more coding into their curricula.
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