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by creamyhorror 13y ago
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This is a really intriguing view of an achievable CS course in schools. The Vietnamese government really pushed hard when they implemented CS in the curriculum - very farsighted of them.
What I find a little frustrating personally is that in my own high school class in Singapore we were doing problems of probably similar difficulty, only in math. Now ten years later moving into coding I have to learn all this stuff from scratch, not having realised how much (financial and personal) benefit a focus on CS would have brought me if I had gotten into it earlier.
And even today we still haven't brought CS into our education system, not as a full subject. The traditional sciences of physics, chemistry and biology still hold pride of academic place, even though it would be more useful to diversify what students learn (and help them get jobs in tech or start businesses). In the age of the computer, that's a real shame.
edit: Is this story appearing on the front page? It doesn't seem to be for me - was it flagged?