You should learn to program: Christian Genco at TEDxUTA

Christian is a Computer Science undergraduate student and President's Scholar in his last semester at the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University. He recently garnered national attention for his first place award at the annual SMU Talent Show by pioneering the art of "musical eating" with the MaKey MaKey - a new device given to him by the MIT Media Labs designed to turn anything into an input device. Christian is on a mission to inspire the world to learn to program, and was recently featured at the fourth annual TEDxSMU, the first Social Science series at the Dallas Perot Museum, and at local area high schools to convince Dallasites to do just that. Christian is slated to publish an introductory book to the world of programming at the end of 2013. Check out what he is up to at http://christian.gen.co/ The 2013 TEDxUTA Event @ The University of Texas At Arlington About TEDx: In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)