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The article seems very concerned about what is the right level of abstraction to teach. I understand the appeal of starting with Jacob’s loom, especially when y
by mxcrossb 8y ago
The article seems very concerned about what is the right level of abstraction to teach. I understand the appeal of starting with Jacob’s loom, especially when you’re going to follow up with something low level like basic. But maybe code academy disagrees. Maybe young people these days don’t need convincing that computers just follow language commands, and with a high level language that’s maybe a safe lie to teach.
We might further wonder about what to teach for futures non von Neumann architectures. What is the Jacob’s loom if a multi core machine? The organ of a quantum computer?
- el_cujo 8y agoI guess I've never seen the BBC series, but from the description I don't think it really has the same target audience or goals as Codeacademy. Codeacademy is (mostly) targeted to giving people practical skills to get a job with, while the BBC series sounds like it's more about general education on computers for people who might casually encounter them in real life, not those who are interested in computers as a career. Sort of like in college when everyone might have to take a general biology class, I imagine this would not be structured the same as a biology class targeted to medical school students or those majoring in biology.