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I think as far as classifying it as a foreign language is concerned, it could likely be a reflection of the fact that US education curricula are decided at a st
by mvanveen 13y ago
I think as far as classifying it as a foreign language is concerned, it could likely be a reflection of the fact that US education curricula are decided at a state level in general, and so the federal government has limited ability to incentivize source code literacy in schools except (I'm guessing) through a measure such as this.
- smsm42 13y agoWhy federal government has to do it? There are no state governments that know these facts? Let's assume this is true for all states - but at least California has Cárdenas and Honda, right? And I assume those have some support in California, otherwise they wouldn't be elected. So if they did it in California (which, as everybody knows, has lots of money to spend on government programs) and it were a great success (as most of government programs dealing with what to teach and what not are), California would produce a lot of highly qualified programmers that could take jobs from every other state (software development is highly mobile) so other states would see the light and introduce the same programs in their states. So why it must be federal and can't be decided on the state level?