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Do Kids Still Program?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the loss-of-impetus dept.

From his journal, hogghogg asks: "I keep finding myself in conversations with tertiary educators in the hard sciences (Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, etc.) who note that even the geeks—those who voluntarily choose to major in hard sciences—enter university never having programmed a computer. When I was in grade six, the Commodore PET came out, and I jumped at the opportunity to learn how to program it. Now, evidently, most high school computer classes are about Word (tm) and Excel (tm). Is this a bad thing? Should we care?" Do you think the desire to program computers has declined in the younger generations? If so, what reasons might you cite as the cause?

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  1. Re:Degrade of Education by hackwrench · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The No Child Left Behind Act should really be called the Let's Chain Everyone To The Lowest Performing Student Act. Anybody else want to have a shot at it?

  2. Re:Some people still do it! by thequux · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Coding doesn't need to be useful...

    Heh.