nancy ureña reid: gracias damián.

with me here on "communidad del valle" is nancy urena reid on the show. d you're a teacher of mathematics and computer science at lincoln high school in san jose. nancy urena reid: that's correct. damian: now, when we talk about coding, we've--it's a relatively new term or is it not? what do we talk about when we talk about coding? i know it involves kids and--not necessarily kids, but people on computers. nancy: yeah, so coding gives students the opportunity to create something using a language such as, like java, or

with me here on "communidad del valle" is nancy urena reid on the show. and you're a teacher of mathematics and computer science at lincoln high school in san jose. nancy urena reid: that's correct. damian: now, when we talk about coding, we've--it's a relatively new term or is it not? what do we talk about when we talk about coding? i know it involves kids and--not necessarily kids, but people on computers. nancy: yeah, so coding gives students the opportunity to create something using a language such as, like java, or some visual programming that's snap!, which is becoming more available to younger kids to expose them to technology or programming. and so, they're able to write some--it's a language. they write code, they have to understand what the fundamentals are, and then they're able to create things, whether a calculator or an animation or anything that they can think of to help them. damian: when you talk about coding, it sounds like you write code. it sounds like something secretive that the cia operatives are using. but no, this is something that