Code.org is a non-profit organization and educational website founded by Hadi and Ali Partovi,[1] aimed at K-12 students who specialize in computer science.

The initiative also targets schools in the United States in an attempt to encourage them to include more computer science classes in the curriculum.

[9] The idea for the organization came from Hadi, who states that he thought of it on the day of Steve Jobs's death in 2011 while mulling over his own potential legacy.

[11] In late February 2013, a month after launch, they released a video featuring Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey, and other programmers and entrepreneurs on the importance of learning how to code.

[16] In 2014, Code.org posted a one-hour tutorial to build and customize a Flappy Bird video game using the site's block visual programming language.

[19] In December 2014, Code.org held a successful Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign that raised over $5 million to help educate school children.

[35][36][37] The Hour of Code also offered participation gifts to some of the schools involved, such as a set of fifty laptops or a conference call with one tech "luminary" like Gates or Dorsey.

After this, the next step was to create free online teaching and learning materials for schools to use if instituting computer science classes.

[51] The main platform used in Code.org instruction is Code Studio[52] which according to TechCrunch, "teaches the underlying concepts in programming through the manipulation of blocks of logic that when stacked together in a particular order, move a character around a scene or draw a shape.

"[59] Code.org's work has been recognized by Michael Halvorson as a significant contributor to the learn to program movement, a broad-based computer literacy agenda that began in the 1980s and has been amplified by the Internet and an array of commercial and educational practices.