Fascinating. Kids as young as 6 being trained to develop computer ‘code’ with the hope of becoming tomorrow’s billionaires. They describe it as like learning another language, which I can actually relate to in a strange way – you need to learn the main terminology and ‘words’ that you code with, but then how all these hinge together to form ‘sentences’ and paragraphs’ that make sense and actually form something. You can then improve your ‘grammar’ to give it that extra per-zaz, and to help other coders and programmers who look at it afterwards make sense of the flow.

The frightening things though is that this has become ever-increasingly easy for people to access and do, although at the same time dealing with greater complexities. So as long as you have access to a computer and the internet you can start coding away. There are tonnes of resources and help to self-learn, with plenty of different ways and programmes to do this.

There is also the ability to be more self-sufficient, with the ability to easily work by yourself from home, teach yourself the tricks of the trade, set yourself up and freelance to people on or offline, and have opportunities to fine-tune your skills on different projects even if it’s just for free to start with (people are generally impressed by this, for someone to offer to create code to help with x y z problem they have).

In terms of types of coding then it’s vast. Whether complicated software and ‘widgets’, code on websites and internet pages, and of course the ever-popular Apps for smart phones and Pads.

One of the greatest opportunities as well is to find the right opportunity for new coding. In the ideal world you learn the skill of coding so easily that it becomes your second nature, and you then naturally start spotting opportunities in almost day-to-day life to use your new found coding skills to solve problems. It’s like learning a foreign language and now being able to freely be a part of that culture and suddenly spotting things that otherwise you wouldn’t see. Opportunity seems to knock on your door you turn to.

Back to this news article on the BBC website, youngsters are now seeing this as a serious career option, whether it’s steady learning or a crash course and ‘camp’ in coding. If a person can learn the techie language when they’re young they have their whole life ahead to then use this and see great fruits from their hard work. And the rewards can apparently be amazing, particularly for the best of the best.