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Streets. >> reporter: and in a town like mckeesport, coding gives students access to skills necessary in a changing employment landscape. >> we are an old steel mill town where the steel mills have closed down and we are trying to come back from that. i think that code.org is a wonderful opportunity. >> reporter: computing jobs are now the number one source of new wages in the u.s. with over 500,000 open jobs nationwide. and the sector is projected to continue growing at twice the rate of all other jobs. >> computing jobs are ahead of health care, manufacturing, sales. >> reporter: it's also o...

Universities. before we start firing all the history professors, let's examine the ideas behind these moves. it's certainly true that today's high-tech economy needs people who are computer savvy. a group estimates by 2020 there will be 1.4 million computing jobs in the u.s., but only 400,000 computer science students to fill them. so it's smart to understand how computers work. but succeeding at work and in life is more complicated than simply learning to code. in my book "in defense of a liberal education" i show how important the liberal arts were to teaching creativity and the joy of learn...