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Course Description

Coding skills are among the most in-demand in today’s job market. Get your first taste of real-world experience with this 5-day online-based program that will introduce you to computer programming and computational thinking! No prior coding experience is required to benefit from this workshop that will walk you through very basic and fun exercises using some of the most popular programming languages in use today. In addition to the coding experiences, we will take you through, you will also learn the basics about cybersecurity, a rapidly growing computer field that deals with securing your data against an ever-growing number of threats that results in data loss and theft. We will apply the coding skills you learn to code a password generator, review the security settings in popular systems you use every day such as email and social media to examine how hackers could potentially gain access to your private data, and explore a number of "ethical hacking" tools that experts use to determine whether their systems are vulnerable to "hackers" who constantly search for weaknesses in the protections you have put in place to secure your systems and data. An introductory experience designed for students entering 9th through 12th grade in the fall of 2021.
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