While I do agree that the article is written in an ill-conceived manner, I do believe that much of the discussion regarding it is fairly biased.The user base on

While I do agree that the article is written in an ill-conceived manner, I do believe that much of the discussion regarding it is fairly biased.The user base on hackernews is not comprised of people who are unfamiliar with development or "figuring things out themselves". The problem resides in how highschools are not staying current with the science curriculum. All of the highschools I've visited, in the past 4 years, both in Ireland and in the Netherlands have not offered any sort of computer science education, which I myself would believe to be fairly important in a modern education. Of course it shouldn't be a mandatory class, just like how the other sciences are not mandatory. It should simply be a subject which is available to be chosen. While we did have an "IT" class in Ireland, it was solely about teaching the kids about typewrite. This doesn't give the students a chance to learn about the world of Computer science in school. I study computer science now despite this, but many students never decide to study something irrelevant to school in their free time.