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BBC Touts Coding With New Show About 'Grand Theft Auto'

  • Engadget, Thursday, March 12, 2015 10:08 AM

As part of a major initiative to get the UK into coding, the BBC is creating a new TV show about Rockstar's "Grand Theft Auto" game. It isn't, however, a shoot-em-up translation TV of the world of the game. It's about the making of the game, per show developer Guy Cocker. BBC's "Make it Digital" campaign, kicking off this fall, is targeted at 11-to-12-year-olds and includes an element that aims to create 5,000 trainee positions for unemployed teens and generally improve the country's tech literacy. 

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