To be honest you can say this of every subject in school; they all exist in a vacuum and are missing a ton of knowledge to actually use practically. Rote learni

To be honest you can say this of every subject in school; they all exist in a vacuum and are missing a ton of knowledge to actually use practically. Rote learning. Revise for the exams then forget etc. At least this is a way to introduce them to the concept of coding, and they can learn the other stuff later if they decide to pursue it.