Kids coding languages: Why is today's Google Doodle so important for computer programming?

Google Doodles are often challenging, fun and help illuminate the ideas and people that have changed the world. But today's homepage celebrates something even more fundamental than normal. The Doodle centres on coding – helping children to learn the languages that power the site and its homepage itself. And it even lets people do some of that themselves, helping teach some coding basics. It is just one of the various projects by Google and its competitors like Apple that is intended to allow children to code.