Obama becomes the first US president to code

Dubbed “Coder in Chief,” Barack Obama is being described as the first US president to dabble in computer programming. After kicking off the 2014 Computer Science Education Week with a call to code, Obama joined an “Hour of Code” event, an international campaign that aims to show how much an hour of programming can amount to. Code.org co-founder Hadi Parvoti told Wired that the president did not fully complete the tutorial, but did finish a number of exercises with the likes of Google’s visual programming language Blocky.