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b) is education. Literacy is terrible without school too. But now nearly everyone spends years learning that skill and can use it throughout life. Not to say co
by lopmotr 7y ago
b) is education. Literacy is terrible without school too. But now nearly everyone spends years learning that skill and can use it throughout life. Not to say coding is necessarily as useful as reading and writing though.
- lifeisstillgood 7y agoAbsolutely- I am about 30,000 words into a book on Software Literacy and it's good to hear I am not the only fool thinking along these lines :-) Edit ... not that you are a fool :-)
- justinclift 7y agoEducation definitely won't work for many elderly people who are 1. Not Interested, and 2. May no longer be capable of picking up (or retaining) the skill. :(
- lopmotr 7y agoI'm not talking about re-educating adults. Just that we could teach nearly everyone to program if it were important, in the same way we teach nearly everyone to read and write. Kids already learn long division at school, which is an algorithm. Programming is kind of easier in a way because if you have a goal, you can fumble you way towards it until it works, but you can't really fumble your way through long division if you don't know how to do it.
- justinclift 7y agoHmmm. Not sure you really understand what elderly people are like. :/ For example, my father - who used to be able to do at least basic programming in C and Python - is no longer able to grasp the concepts for any length of time. eg teach him, verify he's gotten it... and the next day it's a blank. Repeatedly. :/