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This is a depressingly philistine perspective. A basic grasp of computational thinking has never been more important. It's become a prerequisite for making inf
by tomstuart 14y ago
This is a depressingly philistine perspective.
A basic grasp of computational thinking has never been more important. It's become a prerequisite for making informed decisions about the world we live in.
The world may or may not need more working programmers (or mathematicians, novelists or plumbers), but why wouldn't we want to teach these elementary skills to as many people as possible?
- primecommenter 14y agoIndeed, why not? This is no more or less as exciting an announcement as that of a new knitting hobby.
- Nate75Sanders 14y agoYes. Came here to post something along these lines and to link to this 2006 article by Jeanette Wing, head of the Carnegie Mellon computer science department: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/publications/Wing06.pdf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/publications/Wing0...