A new summer camp is aiming to create the entrepreneurs of tomorrow by teaching young Bermudians the much-vaunted skill of ‘coding’.

Touted across the globe as “the new cursive”, coding — the process of telling a computer in its own language what to do — has become increasingly important to learn in recent years, according to educators, with jobs in computer science now offering some of the highest starting salaries for college graduates. The new summer camp Code Tuna aims to give children a skill set that will allow them to work in those high-paying fields, anywhere in the world, said camp founder Nicholas Hoskins.

“You google ‘best jobs’ and generally the top ten are dominated by computer related fields,” said Mr Hoskins. “These are fields that you can work in, regardless of your age. If you have the skills, you can make money in them, from anywhere on the planet, over the internet.”

Operated out of the Watford Sports Club in Sandys for children aged seven to 14, Code Tuna is a “game-based learning camp focusing on mathematics, programming and entrepreneurship”.

The idea, said Mr Hoskins, is to turn the process of learning how to code into a game, or ‘gamifying’ education.

“As far as Code Tuna goes, it’s about giving children a fresh outlook on learning and education in general. Making it fun, competitive, with clear goals and rules. We turn it into a game. Like any game, they want to work together to win it. It’s just in our game, winning is also learning.”

The summer camp begins August 4 and will run until August 29.

For prices and more information visit www.codetuna.com, or visit their Facebook page, www.facebook.com/codetunacamp.