Why should kids learn the basics of coding? And so that was my first hook, and that was back in the day when you didn’t have the Internet to look up things and to get help, but that immediately got me hooked, where you said ‘Hey, you can create anything you want using a computer.” I just started reading the manual and I realized I could make video games on it. “I was probably early high school or late middle school and I had one of those TI-85 calculators. What inspired you to start coding when you were a student?

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Here & Now's Eric Westervelt, speaks with Sal Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, about the importance of STEM education and his move from online education to brick-and-mortar schools. This week, millions of people around the world are participating in the ' Hour of Code,' a movement to promote computer programming in a changing digital world. (Kimberly White/Getty Images for Vanity Fair) This article is more than 7 years old.

Khan Academy founder and CEO Sal Khan speaks onstage during 'The State of Digital Education' at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Octoin San Francisco, California.

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