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President Barack Obama participates in an 'Hour of Code' event with middle-school students including Adrianna Mitchell in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House in Washington, D.C.

President Barack Obama became the first occupant of the Oval Office to publicly write a line of code on Monday.

Kicking off Code.org's Hour of Code campaign and Computer Science Education Week from the White House, Obama wrote a single line of JavaScript.

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This is what the president wrote, according to Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi:

moveForward(100);

The code, which included a predefined function for a tutorial using characters from Disney's "Frozen," moved a figure 100 pixels.

According to Partovi, Obama "asked if he needs to type the F in upper-case, and he got the () and the ; right too, he was very precise and didn't make a typing mistake."

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Obama first prez to publicly code

By Sara Fischer, CNN

updated 7:52 PM EST, Mon December 8, 2014

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama delivered a poignant personal promise to the American people Monday, vowing to continue to fight to improve racial tensions in America, given the "particular experiences" he brings to the office.

"I'm going to stay on this," the President said Monday in an interview with BET, a network that reaches a predominately young African-American audience. "Not only am I going to stay on it ... but hopefully the entire society says, 'Let's finally try to make some real progress on this.'"

Once criticized for shying away from the topic of race early on in his presidency, Obama has recently taken a more active role in sharing how his personal experiences help him to empathize with all kinds of people affected by the recent protests on racial tensions -- from protesters, to victims, to law enforcement officers, to families, and most importantly, to black youth.

In his interview with BET's "106 & Park," the President cited a meeting he had with nonviolent protesters Monday -- between ages 18-25. For him, he says, listening to young African-Americans describe their own experiences of being stopped for no reason, or being unjustly labeled as suspicious, strikes a personal chord.

"My mind went back to what it was like for me when I was 17, 18, 20," the President said. "As I told them, not only do I hear the pain and frustration of being subjected to that kind of constant suspicion, part of the reason I got into politics was to figure out how can I bridge some of those gaps and understandings so that the larger country understands this is not just a black problem or a brown problem, this is an American problem."

The President also made a point to invoke Attorney General Eric Holder's race and civil rights record, saying, "He's got a similar set of stories and experiences he can share."

While most of the protests across the country have been relatively peaceful, many of the gatherings have caused traffic delays and street closures. According the President, those are small prices to pay in order to achieve the larger goal of ending racial tensions in America.

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Obama gets personal

President Barack Obama told the world that everyone should learn how to code. And now hes putting his money where his mouth is.

Earlier today, to help kick-off the annual Computer Science Education Week, Obama became the first president ever to write a computer program. It was a very simple programall it does is draw a square on a screenbut thats the point, says Hadi Partovi, co-founder Code.org, an organization that promotes computer science education. All programming starts simple, he says. No one starts by creating a complicated game.

Last year, Obama delivered a YouTube speech to promote Computer Science Education Week, but didnt write any code himself. Learning these skills isnt just important for your future. Its important for our countrys future, the president said in the video. If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans like you to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.

Obama was echoing the sentiment of the growing code literacy movement, which seeks to expand computer science and programming education throughout the world. Code literacy advocates argue that with information technology embedding itself ever deeper into our lives, everyone should learn a bit more about how computers operate. A whole industry has sprung-up around the idea, with companies offering everything from childrens games that teach the fundamentals of programming to intensive three month full-time bootcamps dedicated to teaching people how to code well enough to land a job.

Code.org introduced the Hour of Code campaign last year with the aim of convincing all students to try just one hour of programming and showing them that anyone can learn the basics. As part of the campaign, the organization created a website that compiles many different hour long tutorials, most of which were created specifically for the campaign.

Obama wrote his code part of event today organized by Code.org, which brought brought 20 middle school students from the South Seventeenth Street School in Newark, New Jersey, to the White House, where they met the president and worked on Hour of Code tutorials. Partovi says the president himself didnt complete the tutorial from start to finish, but instead went from station to station watching the students work. He did, however, complete some of the exercises, which involved both using Googles Blockly tool, and writing a line of code using the programming language JavaScript.

Obama joins New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who tweeted in 2012 that his New Years resolution was to learn to code, among major U.S. politicians who have taken the first steps towards code literacy.

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