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Eight-year-old Aiden McEwan fell in love with coding after attending classes to learn the Scratch coding language last year.
Knowing of his keen interest in science, mathematics and anything to do with numbers, his mother Josephine Ng signed him up for coding classes under the Code in the Community (CITC) programme.
The initiative, started by Google in 2017, offers free coding classes to children from low-income families to teach them basic coding skills and inspire them to discover and explore with technology.
Speaking to The Sunday Times yesterday at a graduation ceremony at Our Tampines Hub for students who completed the programme last year, Aiden said: “It is fun when I put the codes together on my computer and I can see that it creates a program. I like experimenting with the different codes.”
One of the programs he created is a five-question quiz in which a cat poses questions to the player.
Through the CITC initiative, other participants have also managed to create useful programs.
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