India, March 31 -- The importance of computer science education is everywhere you look, whether it's boot camps that retrain blue-collar workers as a hedge against their jobs' looming automation, or guidance counsellors who advise students on the highest-paying majors, or even children in primary school creating book reports in augmented reality. Learning to program is hard, but is increasingly important for obtaining skilled positions in the workforce.

Information about what it takes to be good at programming is critically missing in a field that has been notoriously slow in closing the gender gap. Be it honing creativity along with computational skills amongst learners, motivating them to innovate, or making them future-ready, programm...