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Surely you could say the same about teaching six year olds anything beyond reading, writing and basic maths. At that age, you're not teaching them (programming
by another-dave 9y ago
Surely you could say the same about teaching six year olds anything beyond reading, writing and basic maths.
At that age, you're not teaching them (programming) concepts, you're stoking their curiosity
- mmirate 9y agoThen why give a taste of "programming" and not, say, electronics? That would support the (superior) bottom-up direction of CS pedagogy far better.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoPor que no los dos?
- mmirate 9y agoTime limitations. With current US primary+secondary curricula, most non-remedial students still only get as far as differential calculus before graduating high school - electronics and discrete math are already missing from that, and "concrete programming demonstrations" would strain the schedule even more.