All That Glitters Is Code

High school sophomore Teja Deonarine wants to talk to sharks. Senior Gianni Small wants to build a better eBay. And seventh-grader Bronwyn Chochinov wants to help girls express themselves through fashion. These girls are learning to code. The three came together at a New York hackathon event, where they made a short video. Shooting scenes on smartphones, editing the video, and tweaking lines of code in javascript was all part of the movie-making process, using a new app called Vidcode. “We wa...