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> Is Computer Code a Foreign Language? No. And high schools shouldn’t treat it that way. I'd go a step further and say that coding is not a subject and high sc
by flukus 8y ago
> Is Computer Code a Foreign Language? No. And high schools shouldn’t treat it that way.
I'd go a step further and say that coding is not a subject and high schools shouldn't teach it, in the same sense that calculators aren't a subject they teach. There are so many opportunities for coding to integrate and enhance with other subjects that are being ignored.
Half of my high school physics classes and 90% of my maths ones were plotting graphs, repeating the same exercises over and over with the same memorized equations. That's pointless busy work we could eliminate with computers and focus on more fundamental things.