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Have found their own way to find out whos got the best coding skills. its two pm on a wednesday in the south african township of i report just a few kilometers from pretoria a few dozen fifth graders are back at school armed with basic coding blocks laptops and endless imagination competing against each other many of their ideas are inspired by problems theyve experienced within their communities. weve heard in the news and in the newspapers the children most of the time i getting lost so he cam...

Looking for a job, computer science majors are turning down offers. poppy harlow looks at the hot tech trends. >> social network is the wall street movie of this generation. >> you guys were the inventors of facebook. >> invented facebook. >> they want to build something cool thats going to change the world. >> facebook founder mark zuckerberg may have dropped out of college, but back on campus, computer science is hot, and students with coding skills are burning up the job market. >> by congrat...

Poppy harlow paid a visit to new york university where 94% of computer science grads got a gig. >> the social network is the wall street movie of this generation. >> you guys were the inventors of facebook. >> a lot of students want to be the next mark zuckerberg. >> reporter: mark zuckerberg may have dropped out of college, but back on campus computer science is hot. and students with coding skills are burning up the job market. >> by graduation, how many companies reached out to you about work...

fired amid a scandal over alleged child sex abuse by a former coach. the team players say they are excited for a fresh start. obrien is the outgoing new england patriots offensive coordinator. and itll be one year tomorrow since that tucson, arizona shooting left six dead and injured 13, including congresswoman gaby giffords. this weekend that tragedy is being remembered in many different ways. giffords made her first appearance at her tucson office presenting a plaque honoring her a...

new job in 2012? were going to tell you how to get hired. and from camping and cooking to mortgages and taxes, todays girl scouts can get a badge for money smarts. lets begin with politics. when it comes to the gop, heres the bottom line. they want to cut taxes, they really want to cut taxes. they all want to repeal what they call obama care, the presidents health care plan, and they want to shrink government. ron paul, his plan is really the most extreme. he doesnt just want to shri...

The world. >> reporter: facebook founder mark zuckerberg may have dropped out of college but back on campus computer science is hot and students with coding skills are burning up the job market. by graduation how many companies reached out to you about working for them? >> id say between 10 and 20 reached out to me just before graduating. >> how many job offers did you get? >> around four or five. >> you havent even graduated yet. how many companies have reached out to you? >> between 10 and 20....

similar bombings two weeks ago on al qaeda. the opposition accuses the government of staging the blasts to back up a claim that its fighting terrorists. iran planning more war games. state-run media report another round of military drills are going to take place next month in the straight of hormuz. the most recent exercises ended just this week. tensions now have been rising over this strategic critical waterway. iran threatened recently to block the strait if new sanctions harm ira...