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...and then she said you can learn to TEACH people to code in a day. I'm sure this person would never claim that someone who can't play the violin could teach
by gklitt 13y ago
...and then she said you can learn to TEACH people to code in a day.
I'm sure this person would never claim that someone who can't play the violin could teach someone to play violin. I don't understand why she thinks coding is any different.
Also, I found myself getting annoyed at the "building a static website in an hour" == "coding" = "building Facebook" mentality. It takes more than an hour to learn how to actually write a simple program, and even more to learn to build a nontrivial web application.
Then again, I got started with static web dev and ended up becoming a CS major, so maybe that's an optimistic and accessible way to frame it for beginners.
- anaphor 13y agoTo be fair, actually to me it sounded like she meant it would take a day to teach people who already knew some programming to teach it. That's still kind of underestimating how hard it is to teach programming though.
- handelaar 13y agoAnd yet she represents a government which won't let anybody teach in a state-funded school without a postgraduate qualification in teaching that takes at least a year to obtain.