Something that's much more worthy of your time and consideration instead of this video is to read up on the history and goals of A. P. Ershov: https://scholar.h

Something that's much more worthy of your time and consideration instead of this video is to read up on the history and goals of A. P. Ershov: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/gafinogenov/files/04_14-3afinogenov.pdf https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/gafinogenov/files/04_14-3a... Even more seriously for Ershov’s vision, the Ministry of Education and the commission charged with implementing the informatics course took aim directly at the cornerstone of the whole concept. In contrast, the commission proposed that the course focus on skills that would be directly useful to students in a practical context, and specifically not train them to be programmers.