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I'm not totally sold on the merits of teaching kids to code. I didn't learn how to code until I was 27 and turned out fine.
by baron816 6y ago
I'm not totally sold on the merits of teaching kids to code. I didn't learn how to code until I was 27 and turned out fine.
- turnerc 6y agoI completely agree here, it seems like they are just playing into education's concept of code=STEM job, or maybe it's a new Roomba recruitment drive...
- czbond 6y agoI'm going to be downvoted if I don't preface this statement: CompSci, know quite a few languages well enough. Good at it. I sure as heck hope that when my kids are career age - they're doing something a bit higher up the stack than programming. Even if it's meta-programming. Programming is a convoluted way of interacting with business logic.
- imtringued 6y agoThey already do. We don't have to touch a single assembly statement in our entire lives if we don't want to.
- czbond 6y agotouche ;)
- ponker 6y agoWhy teach kids how to do anything? Why teach them math, swimming, writing, eating healthy, etc? You can find people who didn’t learn any of this stuff until they were 27 and “turned out fine.”