Preparing for the future

"I like coding. It is a lot of fun," says Yuan.

Although Yuan has only a few classmates who share the same hobby, he is not lonely in the digital world.

Shen Tao, a sixth-grade student from Shanghai Fudan Science Park Primary School, has been fascinated by coding since he attended a computer class in the third grade.

Unlike the procedure to study coding during his parents' generation, when computers were heavy and programming language consisted of strings of black-and-white codes, Shen says using the programming language of Scratch is like playing with toy bricks.

"It feels so cool," says Shen, referring to Scratch, in which users drag and line up colored blocks in sequences to create animations.