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It's not the sacrifice which you should worry about. These things don't happen quickly. Watch the curriculum of young children change. 10 years is all it will

• sillysaurus2 13y ago
  10 years matches my experience as well. That's about the length of time to become truly proficient at learning how to learn technology, which is probably more important than merely learning technology.
• jdjb 13y ago
  You honestly think programming will become such a vital skill in everyone's job that it'll be taught along side reading and math to young children? Even at the high school level students are forced to learn algebra and calculus but they don't really learn it. They memorize a few formula and apply them on tests but how many people can even take a simple derivative a few years after leaving school? Just cause someone took high school calc doesn't mean they're challenging for the jobs of mathematicians.
  • lhnz 13y ago
    > You honestly think programming will become such a vital skill in everyone's job that it'll be taught along side reading and math to young children? I'm in the UK, and yes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23222068 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23222068 > They memorize a few formula and apply them on tests but how many people can even take a simple derivative a few years after leaving school? You're right about this. But the percentage of people that will learn will remain the same, the quantity of the population that were taught will increase. It will have an effect.
  • SapphireSun 13y ago
    It's worse than that. Most people don't take calculus in the US...
• tomjen3 13y ago
  Considering how well most schools teach writing or math I wouldn't worry.