Codecademy, the brand-new entity behind that plan, has announced "Code Summer +" -- a condensed version of its curriculum, starting this May. The announcement was part of an event with U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra.
The White House CTO was in San Francisco on Tuesday to push President Obama's Summer Jobs + plan -- and to rack up some new commitments from the tech industry.
"Codecademy is accessible to everyone," Chopra said. "I'm very bullish on encouraging these tools."
Standing alongside Chopra and Codecademy co-founder Zach Sim was Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus and head of a number of foundations that he pledged to help Summer Jobs +. The Level Playing Field Institute and the College Bound Brotherhood will place disadvantaged and minority students in top Silicon Valley firms and Universities.
Kapor recounted that his own career began with a summer job in 1966 that had provided him access to a computer for the first time. "Half the battle with young people is getting the idea that there's a world they can aspire to," he said. "We can do a much better job in Silicon Valley of being open to the people knocking on our doors, and overcoming our hidden biases."
Chopra also announced that the government would create a Schema.org database of summer jobs within 60 days -- similar to one that has already been created for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.