Not even the Grinch would oppose this. Google is getting girls to code with a "Holiday Lights" project that launched today and illuminates Christmas trees at the President's Park at the White House. It's all part of the tech company's Made With Code campaign [1], which started this year to inspire girls (and their parents) to get interested in programming.

The youngsters can head to the Made With Code site [2], and an intro programming language called Blockly will take them through the steps needed to make the tree lights come alive.

Even better: the programmed lights will make their debut at this year's National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony on Dec. 4. It'll be live streamed on the White House's YouTube channel [3] on Thursday and air on PBS throughout December.

Pavni Diwanji — Google's vice president of engineering — wrote about the project [4], mentioning how she first fell in love with coding because her dad was an engineer and encouraged her to enter a programming competition in seventh grade.

"Ever since that day, I've known that when I program something, I'm creating something totally new for the world," she wrote. "That's what Made with Code is about: discovering that creating something new and exciting — whether it's a holiday tree, a video game or a driverless car — can be accomplished with the power of code."

We'll certainly cheers to that, and to all the other coding campaigns [5] targeting youngsters.