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> Having base coding knowledge and experience will go a longer way for our children then teaching them a foreign language like French, Russian and other languag
by jmduke 15y ago
> Having base coding knowledge and experience will go a longer way for our children then teaching them a foreign language like French, Russian and other languages!
People who make false dichotomies like these threaten to undermine the entire push to make programming and computer science available in lower education.
Our children should be able to learn a foreign language; our children should be able to learn to code. One is not better than another; what's important is that children have the possibility to learn both.
- nazar 15y agoI agree with you! Working with children I realized how amazingly fast they are able to pick up anything you teach them. I wish I had someone to teach me coding at age of 8 or something. Its just amazing seeing kids do stuff in a weeks I myself could only do after months or years of learning programming
- paul9290 15y agoIndeed providing the option to learn a foreign language to our children is valuable. Though for me what did five years of French class do for me? I would have preferred spending that time learning a skill that would help me later in life.