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For some of us, trying to keep up with quickly changing technology can feel like learning a foreign language. Well as Matt Galka tells us, lawmakers now want to give Florida high schoolers the option of learning computer code for credit.

Computers, tablets, and phones have been the way of the world for a while. Sometimes it’s tough to keep up with all of the changing tech. But one Florida lawmaker wants to give Florida high schoolers a head start.

Broward Democrat and former Yahoo executive Jeremy Ring proposed a plan that would require high schools to offer computer coding classes as a foreign language credit.

“This is cultural, this may be a new culture, but it’s cultural, anyone in this world who has children knows this is cultural, and it’s more cultural than a lot of what we do today,” said Sen. Ring (D-Margate).

Andrew Ladnowski said the course could help people like his son Jeremy, because his son has a speech disorder.

“He can type at 65 words per minute with 98 percent accuracy. When he’s online, he has no disability,” said Ladnowski.

The proposal cleared its first committee but not without some hesitation. Senator Nancy Detert is worried about funding

“I’m concerned that we’re going to take an approach that’s very forward thinking and then it’s going to fail under implementation,” said Sen. Detert (R-Venice).

And teacher Dwight Bullard isn’t sure schools are ready.

“If a school has a computer lab or a series of computer labs that, over the course of the last few months of the school year has to be used for testing, now you’re talking about a class that is soley computer based and not having access to those computers,” said Sen. Bullard (D-Cutler Bay).

Schools would have until 2017 to figure out how to implement the courses if the bill passes.

Bill supporters say coding jobs – like developing websites or smart phone apps, could potentially land someone a highpaying job right out of college. The median salary for a Computer Programmer according to U.S. News and World Report – just over $76,000 dollars.