Reading, Writing, Ruby?

itwbennett writes "A BBC article outlines a push to make software programming a basic course of study for British schoolchildren in hopes that Britain could become a major programming center for video games and special effects. Can earlier exposure to better technology courses reverse the declining enrollment in university computer science courses and make coding cool?"

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Hey kids! Learn programming so you can train your

[walterbyrd]

visa worker replacement!

Yeah, that'll do it.

Re:Ruby???

[TheRaven64]

Python is a perfect case study in how not to design a language, rivalled only by C++. It therefore makes an excellent teaching language.