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Chloe Watts

Coding: The Future is Creative

Learning: Secondary

25/03/2014

BBC Two - Coding: The Future is Creative

Chloe Watts meets five of the UK's most creative coders to help inspire KS4 students.

Chloe Watts meets five of the UK's most creative coders, working in music, art, gaming and fashion. This aims to inspire students to code and engage with GCSE computer science.

This film aims to inspire the next generation to get into coding and to engage with computer science at Key Stage 4, GCSE. 

Presenter, fashion technologist and passionate coder Chloe Watts visits some of the UK's most creative coders to demonstrate how exciting coding is, the job opportunities coding skills can lead to, and how necessary coding is for our future. 

Chloe's first stop is Glasgow, where she attends a music gig with a difference. Hundreds turn up to see Beardyman perform a dance music set based on code. 

Next, Chloe heads to Bafta to meet one of the breakthrough Brits for 2013. Mitu Khandaker has taken her computer science degree to the next level by creating, designing and coding her own computer game. Mitu believes coding is a way of creatively expressing ourselves through computer algorithms. 

Chloe stays in London to meet Benjamin Males, a leading fashion technologist in the wearable tech industry. His company has worked with Black Eyed Peas, JLS and Lady Gaga to develop innovative clothing creations.

Games designer John Beech tells his own amazing story of how he rose from novice designer to employee of an international gaming company overnight. 

Chloe finishes her journey at the Festival of Light in Huddersfield. She meets digital artist and coder Seb Lee-Delisle, who is spectacularly merging the world of art and technology by coding an amazing digital interactive firework using his self-coded Pixel Pyros program. He explains why he shared each stage with the online coding community on an open source platform.

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