> Ultimately, my core belief is this: Students need to know how to use computers before they can program them in a serious way. Nonsense. If we went this way,

> Ultimately, my core belief is this: Students need to know how to use computers before they can program them in a serious way. Nonsense. If we went this way, young people would get completely turned off from programming in the first hours. Show them Python, Javascript, Scratch. Get them to display something on the screen, anything. Get that spark. And once they're hooked, now you can start showing them more details about the wonderful world they have just uncovered. The author of this article needs to spend a solid five more years thinking about computer science and education because right now, her writing is just dangerously naive.