CodeDecoding teaches coding and foreign languages in parallel
StartupRealities No 27 CodeDecoding is a computer programming school that teaches coding in parallel with teaching a foreign language to the same group of students. The school's dual-track pedagogy is based on recent groundbreaking research by the University of Washington which demonstrates that, contrary to popular perception, the aptitude for learning a foreign language is a stronger predictor for learning programming than mathematical numeracy. The study shows that more than 70% of the variability in how quickly people learn to code in Python can be explained with their aptitude for foreign language learning, while only a small percentage of the variability can be explained with math skills. CEO QUOTE "The University of Washington research is pretty overwhelming. Programming languages seem to operate just like any other human language. Stringing together symbols following rules creates the building blocks for both computer and natural languages," CodeDecoding fou...