This whole conversation about learning to code puts me in mind of what CMU's Jeanette Wing calls "Computational Thinking", this comment especially. Here is her

This whole conversation about learning to code puts me in mind of what CMU's Jeanette Wing calls "Computational Thinking", this comment especially. Here is her article from CACM on the subject: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wing/publications/Wing06.pdf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wing/publications/Wing06.pdf (I think someone posted this in the comments of Atwood's original post, but I've yet to see it show up here at HN.)