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Coding is hard though. I remember helping a smart friend of mine with his homework in college for an intro CS course and even basic fizz-buzz type stuff was ver
by jeffreyrogers 5y ago
Coding is hard though. I remember helping a smart friend of mine with his homework in college for an intro CS course and even basic fizz-buzz type stuff was very hard for him. This is a guy who has had a highly successful career post-college and did well in his (non-technical) major. I'm skeptical that more than a small fraction of the population will ever learn to code at more than a superficial level.
- lifeisstillgood 5y ago"They said you couldn't teach women to read" - Santa Claus' Grandfather in Arthur Christmas (Best Xmas kids film, not best source of political quotes but I am still asleep)
- jeffreyrogers 5y agoI don't think anyone has seriously said that for a long, long time, if ever. Literacy is obviously pretty easy, much easier than algebra, for example, because in societies with universal schooling almost everyone learns how to do it.