You should learn to program: Christian Genco at TEDxUTA

Christian is a Computer Science undergraduate student and President's Scholar in his last semester at the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University. He recently garnered national attention for his first place award at the annual SMU Talent Show by pioneering the art of "musical eating" with the MaKey MaKey - a new device given to him by the MIT Media Labs designed to turn anything into an input device. Christian is on a mission to inspire the world to learn to program, and was recently featured at the fourth annual TEDxSMU, the first Social Science series at the Dallas Perot Museum, and at local area high schools to convince Dallasites to do just that. Christian is slated to publish an introductory book to the world of programming at the end of 2013.
Check out what he is up to at christian.gen.co/
The 2013 TEDxUTA Event @ The University of Texas At Arlington
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[@eightysevenmoore]

dude i love what your advice was when you said... don't become a programmer. go back to what you where doing. i love that. i work in the auto industry. i worked as a mechanic for several years. i consider my self some what intelligent. i've felt for years that the automotive industry is decades behind due to the lack of computer science integration. there is sooooo many problems in the auto industry that needs to be solved by some programmers that are involved in the auto industry. thank you thank you!!!

[@OneMintueEnglishAlex]

"Be smart, be lazy to learn program!" I love your advice so much!

[@GermaphobeMusic]

Dear Christian, Thank you very much for the advice you sent me! I use it every day, and it's super awesome! I'll take very good care of it. I can't wait to see your TED talks again! Hope all is well!

[@i.teymur]

Thank you so much! This video is still actual even 7 years passed) Coding is the key to your mind!

[@DoctorBallsStrikesAgain]

My computer teacher made us wach this and he is genuinely an amazing speaker

[@arifali6762]

Best motivational speech about programming. Thank you 🙏.

[@CatchMyPoint]

*Awesome Speech man* I loved it so much!! Why this video is not so hyped? The content and your speech is really good

[@duttakapil]

I am just so happy to be the first one to see this. Its great. :D

[@dimachalenko8687]

Thanks man! Really inspiring and funny presentation)

[@TRex419]

How brilliant!

[@joeovip]

I wish i found this four years ago. Bur of course. Never to late. 😃🤪

[@fredking9419]

I would really like to learn more about how to program

[@mursalinahmed3463]

If you are a cs lover You need to see it 😉

[@MisterBarCo]

very nice TED! :)

[@3.14cutter]

He sounds like Tom scott

[@beyexpertdomofu]

nice

[@300PIVOTMASTER]

5:58 Okay I don't know about you but I was definitely not tackling long division as a first grader lmao

[@bernlin2000]

Elon Musk has pointed this out beautifully: while it's quite impressive that our computing technology has improved "astronomically" (pun intended) since the Apollo moon landing, the fact is we have made very little progress in improving our physical world: we haven't been back to the moon in decades, we have still failed so far to sent manned missions to Mars (which might have the potential to be terraformed for humanity) and we have no contact with any objects outside our solar system in any meaningful, communicative manner. We're still very much stuck on this little rock near our sun...technology be damned :-/ We've allowed technology to be tethered primarily to the profit motive, and space travel apparently isn't very profitable (yet). We need bigger ideas, on the public front, from our technology. 8:55 Whaaaaaaa?! Rock-Paper-Scissors is a game of chance....how can this be?!

[@arupmullick3474]

Exactly Rock Paper Scissors? Quantum Mechanics and Mental Telepathy?

[@toddmaek5436]

Actually it was Katherine Johnson and other women who made the landing possible, but I see your point.

[@Ashallmusica]

For how much longer a human brain will be smarter : I don't know if my brain can think of making a super computer much more more more advance in future Well if it's succeed. . . My brain got that idea bruhh to make that much advanced computer. Nothing happened itself, Apple never created itself Geniuses like Steve jobs got the idea. And even if computers will surpass humans we still can think of shutting it down.