A lady told me the other day that her child participates in coding at their elementary school. All I could picture was a few first graders sitting behind a computer and entering in random symbols. After reading the chapter from Connected Code, I now understand coding has a purpose which is to help students enhance their learning through different means other than a traditional classroom experience. I agree with the argument in the reading that coding teaches students how to reason and communicate through digital means which is also known as computational thinking. Students have the opportunity to learn at a young age how to solve a problem by separating that problem into different categories, finding a common thread to make connections, and
