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> It could be argued that kids should be receiving a liberal education at that age and not hard job skills. They motivate each other, and build on each other.
by cbd1984 11y ago
> It could be argued that kids should be receiving a liberal education at that age and not hard job skills.
They motivate each other, and build on each other. Admittedly, some more than others, but I firmly think that math and logic are part of the liberal education, just as much as ethics and rhetoric and a knowledge of art, and those are easy to apply in this context.
Divorcing "trade school" from "liberal school" or whatever you want to call it at that age is wrong, because at that basic level it's easy to tie at least parts of them into each other.
- UK-AL 11y ago"math and logic are part of the liberal education" Those subjects defiantly are. But it isn't coding. The idea being that those subjects are general subjects you will use everywhere. Coding will require those skills to build upon them. Coding is likely to be used for more specific situations. If you have logic and maths nailed down, you should pick up coding easily.
- cbd1984 11y agoMy point is that coding can be used to help teach logic and math.
- UK-AL 11y agoIn my experience most of these coding schools initiatives are mostly about creating web apps and mobile apps and so on. If people are talking about programming and "jobs skills" in the same sentence, generally that's what they're talking about. Not general computational thinking.