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I'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

I'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 ago
Hmmm. 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. :/