And the Hello, welcome to the naked scientist with me Chris Smith and also with Catani and

this week we're broadcasting from a very big tent on Parker's Peace which is in the middle of the city of Cambridge as part of Cambridge's big weekend.

Part of the reason we're here is to support Make It Digital.

This is a BBC initiative taking place across the UK to shine a light on the world of digital creativity

including computer coding and programming to building and making things.

Is learning to code now as important as learning to read and write was historically?

Will big data change the face of our health service?

And what kind of information are you giving away online?

Plus we'll be learning how coding is the newest business in the music scene

and we'll be hearing about the dangers of why fishing.

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK. computers, mobile phones, even calculators. None of these would be possible without coding.

But what actually is coding and is it really a problem that so few of us know how to do it?

Well, it certainly is, because according to industry figures figures in the next five years the UK

faces a skill shortage of some 1.4 million digital professionals in other words these are

people trained in how to do computer programming.

And someone who's trying to change this is Eben Upton, who's the founder of the Raspberry Pie

Foundation and is with us.

Hello, Eben.

What are you trying to change here?

What's your approach? So we're trying to change here? What's your approach?

So we're trying to get a new generation of children interested in programming computers in the same way we were in the 1980s.

Between the mid-90s and about 2005, we saw a collapse in the number of people applying to study

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