I believe neither is necessary, and writing a program in an actual programming language should probably remain a special interest kind of thing. They should ho

I believe neither is necessary, and writing a program in an actual programming language should probably remain a special interest kind of thing. They should however teach the basics as they do teach math. I'm thinking the very basics of discrete mathematics. Like, we can make lists of things, then we can do things with lists, like adding, intersecting, indexing, traversing...