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Stop with the "firsts". This is clearly not the "first time programming was taught to first graders" -- especially since we were introduced to programming back
by beambot 14y ago
Stop with the "firsts". This is clearly not the "first time programming was taught to first graders" -- especially since we were introduced to programming back in Kindergarten (20+ years ago).
This doesn't need to be a "first" in order to be an honorable pursuit. The link-bait HN title is really annoying and detracts from the message.
- dsrguru 14y agoThe HN title is unclear, but the point is that this would be the first time programming is taught to all first graders in a country. At least that's what the article's title claim implies: "Computer programming will soon reach all Estonian schoolchildren." The article itself doesn't seem to suggest a mandatory curriculum change at the national level, though.
- randomdata 14y agoI'm not sure where to dig up historical curriculums to verify my memory, but I'm fairly certain that programming was a mandatory subject when I was in first grade. I remember the whole class going to the computer lab and using BASIC. Education is not handled at the country level here, so it was unlikely to be country-wide, but the local population served by said school system would exceed the population of Estonia.