The two founders of CoderDojo are just as inspirational, 20-year old James Wheltan and his business partner, Bill Liao created the open source coding movement out of nothing except a belief that learning, especially programming, should be free and open, oh and the world needs more programmers.

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Like Microsoft before it, Google cultivates developers, with all-day mapping conferences, lunches with Schmidt, work on new coding languages and open-source development, and almost daily postings of new code and product information on a company blog.

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Maritz, with no installed base, wants the Java-coding hoards from Spring, or the open source communities around the Web application framework Ruby on Rails or the scalable network programming framework Node.js.

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