150,000 students to join Google-backed free programming courses in Vietnam
The number of students attending the second phase is expected to increase tenfold
Duong Quang Thien, Vietnam’s pioneer computer scientist, dies at 85
More than 50 years ago, Thien introduced war-torn Vietnam to electronic engineering, computer science and programming
Google provides free 10,000-hour programming training to Vietnamese kids
The project is aimed partly at piquing children’s interest in computer science and sharpening their logical thinking