Organisers seek to draw more international attention to Portugal as a growing hub for information technologyStudents participate in an event to attempt to break the Guinness Record for the world's largest computer programming lesson at a university in Lisbon, Portugal, October 12, 2024. REUTERS/Rodrigo AntunesStudents participate in an event to attempt to break the Guinness Record for the world's largest computer programming lesson at a university in Lisbon, Portugal, October 12, 2024. REUTERS/Rodrigo AntunesNearly 1,700 students aged between 12 and 67 gathered at the University of Lisbon's IST school of technology on Saturday to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest computer programming lesson in a single venue. The previous record grouped 724 participants in Dallas, in the United States, on Oct 31, 2016. "The final total was counted on how many people were here and 1,668 participants were achieved," said Guinness World Records Adjudicator Paulina Sapinska.
