Startup school is back in session and the rules are changing

Hello,Welcome to this week's edition of Trending, the weekly newsletter highlighting the best of BI Prime's tech coverage. I'm Alexei Oreskovic, Business Insider's West Coast Bureau Chief and Global Tech Editor. This week: Computer school has gotten coolComputer programming was once an unglamorous practice. At least, that's how it seemed to me as an incurious middle school student many years ago, pecking away in computer class on a TRS-80 and struggling to learn BASIC. It was tough to see how that kind of drudgery could make anyone's life better - at least, beyond the brief thrill that came from making an obscene word scroll across a classmate's monochrome screen.But today, knowing how to code is a sexy superpower; it's the special skill that can land you a job at Apple or Google. A variety

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