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It all started when I found myself lost in the gaming world. Most days, I would spend the majority of my time playing Call of Duty, Gears of War, Runescape, and whatever else I could get my hands on. All of my friends would meet up on these games daily to play, and we slowly shifted from being outside most of the day, to playing online. The most addicting game of them all was Runescape. It didn’t take long before I was hooked on this popular online role-playing game. For those who don’t know it was built with Java. After numerous times waiting for the game to load, my interest in Java was piqued and this led me down the rabbit hole of software...

Digital skills are as important as learning to read and write. A leading digital technology teacher says the education system has been slow to recognise the importance of computer coding and warns it will be “disastrous” if New Zealand were to fall behind in the skill. Andrew Reid, an information and communications technology (ICT) and computer science teacher at ACG Strathallan in Auckland, says coding – the way computers and robots are told what to do – is becoming more important as a subject in...