Coding is a creative process, a skill that can be learn by anyone irrespective of their age and allows you to make something out of nothing, and when you create something from. zero, it activates your imagination and, leads you to the path of creativity. Not just this coding is fun and entertaining activity there are so many websites like scratch, blockly, Ruby, which enables kids build the game of their choice using block coding this kind of hands on learning helps kids to build cognitive skills but in a fun way. There are nemerous benefit of learning coding especially for kids of younger age like it enables problem solving skill, computational thinking, promotes creativity etc. Coding requires more practice rather than theory so, Kids learn it by doing it.

Coding, in my opinion, is beneficial to all students, regardless of career preference, especially at a time when our lives are so reliant on technology. According to this article, 50% of jobs today require coding skills, so learning coding will undoubtedly open up more opportunities for them in the future. Furthermore, coding provides a new perspective on the world, much like learning and mastering a second language. Computer code, like English or any other language, is a way to describe reality. A programming language, like any natural language, has its own grammar and syntactic rules, and thus offers many of the same benefits. Many places will not hire you if you do not speak a second language.

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Here are some of the major benefits of why I think coding is beneficial for all the students-

• Coding fosters creativity
• Coding improves math and logic skills
• Coding helps with problem-solving
• Coding projects helps develop resilience
• Coding makes learning fun
• Coding is a social activity
• Coding prepares students for the careers of the future

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There are numerous advantages to learning to code. However, if there is a lot of resistance from parents and teachers about learning coding, it is because of a lack of awareness about the subject because coding has been around for years but was not a part of a school curriculum, many parents still believe that it is a professional subject and should only be learned at the university level, the government of Ontario and many other countries are now coming up with idea of making coding a regular subject in schools like any other so that parents and students both can learn and understand the importance of it.

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