The tech-teach-in Hour of Code came to Sanislo Elementary this afternoon.

Librarian Craig Seasholes already was planning to work with fourth and fifth graders – and then he got word of a special visitor:

Tanya Parker (above left) is the International Program Manager at Code.org and also an engineer on its product team.

Students heard about her work and also did some work of their own, programming with computers and iPads, working with drag-and-drop programs that could show them the underlying code, too. West Seattle’s school-board representative Marty McLaren was there to see them work.

Hour of Code isn’t a single day or a single hour, but it’s focused on this particular week (which happens to be Computer Science Education Week) this year, as explained on its website, which says it’s “a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries” – not just kids, but anybody “4 to 104.” The main point: Learning something about coding isn’t just for people planning to focus on computer science – it can help us all with problem-solving and with being ready for just about any field of work.