This was what 13-year-old Isabel Sieh when she founded her company “Girls Will Code” three years ago. Girls Will Code is a community of young girls interested in coding. Girls Will Code hopes to encourage schools to teach their students basic programming language or make it an after-school activity. Being the Philippines’ youngest programmer to date, Isabel wanted to share her passion for coding, and teach children her age how to do so.
“When I was around 10 years old, my teacher noticed that I really love math so he suggested that I start coding. He showed me this website called Code Academy,” Isabel Sieh said.
At 10, she started learning Hypertext Markup Language and JavaScript through online classes. HTML is a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages while JavaScript is a programming language that makes websites interactive.
Very supportive of her daughter’s endeavor, Isable’s mom Ronna encouraged children to learn coding: “As parents, we’re intimidated (at first), but we have to be open and give them space to do it.”
Source: viral4real.com
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