During a campaign event in New Hampshire, Joe Biden said coal miners should be able to learn to code very easily.
The former vice president told an audience in Derry, New Hampshire, that coal miners could easily transition into programming jobs."Anybody who can go down 300 to 3,000 feet in a mine, sure in hell can learn to program as well, but we don't think of it that way," he said.that Biden made the remarks while he was"riffing on how Obama put him in charge of judging the 'jobs of the future.
President Barack Obama created a similar nationwide program in January 2016, called"Computer Science for All." The course offered students in elementary, middle and high school an opportunity to learn computer science.
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