President Obama writes his first line of Javascript

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The U.S. now has a “coder-in-chief:” President Barack Obama has written his first line of code

The president achieved the feat at an event for Hour of Code, a global effort to get kids involved in coding. The organization’s website, Code.org, claims it has reached tens of millions of students in more than 180 countries with the challenge, which is basically an hour-long tutorial about basic coding

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