University attempts to break Guinness Record for world's largest computer programming lesson, in Lisbon

Record ID: 1847507

  • Title: University attempts to break Guinness Record for world's largest computer programming lesson, in Lisbon
  • Date: 12th October 2024
  • Summary: PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING CLASS WITH LAPTOPS ON THEIR LAPS HANDS ON LAPTOP PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING CLASS WITH LAPTOPS SEATED ON THE FLOOR / SEATED WITH LAPTOPS ON TABLES (SOUNDBITE (English) GUINNESS OFFICIAL, PAULINA SAPINSKA, SAYING: "It's my pleasure to be here today and for the largest computer programming lesson. In order for this record to be broken, we needed to achieve
  • Embargoed: 26th October 2024 14:51
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  • Location: LISBON, PORTUGAL
  • Reuters ID: LVA003140612102024RP1
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  • Story Text: Nearly 1,700 students aged between 12 and 67 flocked to the University of Lisbon's IST School of Technology on Saturday (September 12), to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest computer programming lesson in a single venue.
    The previous record grouped 724 participants in Dallas, in the United States, on Oct. 31, 2016.
    "The final total was counted on how many people were here and 1,668 participants were achieved," said Guinness World Records Adjudicator Paulina Sapinska after the 75-minute session.
    Organisers sought to draw more international attention to Portugal as a growing hub for information technology and to popularise computing.
    "The literacy in computational science in the present moment is equivalent to the literacy in the sense of knowing how to read and write 100 years ago. So everyone must know a little bit about computer science, about programming, to live in the present world," said IST chief Rogerio Colaco.
    (Production: Miguel Pereira)
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