The focus on job skills is a bit unfortunate IMO, but I guess that's what you need to get people behind a change. Also I don't know if "coding" is what we want

The focus on job skills is a bit unfortunate IMO, but I guess that's what you need to get people behind a change. Also I don't know if "coding" is what we want to emphasize, since the actual coding is really a minor component of programming. It's possible that's just the journalist, but I could also see them taking the easy root of actually putting all the focus on the coding side. I'm hopeful though since it also talks about starting with "computational thinking" and such in kindergarten and only getting to actual coding later. Regardless, it's going to be difficult to pull off well, since presumably not many current teachers have great coding skills. Even logical reasoning might be difficult, since it really hasn't been emphasized in the past. If they're just trying to teach the concepts out of a curriculum book without understanding them, it could actually turn kinds off of CS. Still, it's good to see the BC government recognizing the importance of computer science and logical (presumably what they mean by "computational") thinking.