Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg surprised Sequoia High School students and staff by appearing at a special assembly at the Redwood City, Calif., school on Wednesday.

Zuckerberg encouraged students to think outside the box in his speech, which touted technology as a key to getting a great job in the future.

"If you start with the assumption that everything in the future is going to be different than it is now, then it's not true that anyone else knows any more than you guys do about what's going to work in the future,'' said the 30-year-old founder of the world's biggest social network, as quoted by NBC Bay Area.  

Tim Campos, Facebook's chief information officer, appeared prior to Zuckerberg's speech at the assembly on Wednesday to announce an app development class that Facebook is funding at Sequoia and to give the school 50 new Apple laptops, Palo Alto Weekly reported.

"Part of how I got to where I am in my career is I started playing with technology when I was your guys' age," Campos told the students. "My dad worked at a university and his lab used technology a lot, so occasionally he would bring it home to work on and that exposed me to technology."

Unsurprisingly, Zuckerberg pointed to learning computer programming as a way for students to get ahead in the job market.

"Technology is playing a bigger role in all of these things, so the reality is if you want to have a better chance of getting a job ... and if you want to get a job that pays more, then being proficient in technology and knowing some basic things about how to use computers and use basic programming ... is going to be really critical to having a lot of options and doing what you want in the future," said Zuckerberg, as quoted by the Almanac. 

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