Google doodle celebrates 50 years of learning to code

The golden jubilee of the schoolroom coding revolution is being commemorated with the organisation of a Computer Science Education Week, and Google is marking this milestone with an interactive doodle.

Modern parents often come up against traditional parenting norms while trying to intellectually stimulate their children in the digital age. Hungary's most famous export, the Rubik's cube, still enjoys steady sales, but polychromatic abacuses and other educational toys are slowly being replaced by their digital counterparts.

Children were first introduced to writing computer programs, or coding, 50 years ago, and Google has marked this milestone with an interactive doodle. The doodle featured on the home screen of Google's



search engine is offering the millions of its daily users, an opportunity to experienced how pre-schoolers can be exposed to coding. The task is to help a bunny navigate a tiled walkway collecting carrots, and is akin to the playtime favourite, hopscotch.

The golden jubilee of the schoolroom coding revolution is being commemorated with the organisation of a Computer Science Education Week. The doodle is the combined effort of three teams: Google Doodle team, Google Blockly team, and researchers from MIT Scratch.

The digital revolution among children often tend to be equated with 'wasteful' video games, but Silicon Valley's apostles of tech believe that to demonise all things digital would be an unfair assessment.