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More Students Learn CS In 3 Days Than Past 100 Years
theodp writes "Code.org, backed by Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, boasts in a blog post that thanks to this week's Hour of Code, which featured a Blockly tutorial narrated by Gates and Zuckerberg, 'More students have participated in computer science in U.S. schools in the last three days than in the last 100 years.' Taking note of the impressive numbers being put up on the Hour of Code Leaderboards ('12,522,015 students have done the Hour of Code and written 406,022,512 lines of code'), the Seattle Times adds that 'More African American and Hispanic kids learned about the subject in two days than in the entire history of computer science,' and reports that the cities of Chicago and New York have engaged Code.org to offer CS classes in their schools. So, isn't it a tad hyperbolic to get so excited over kids programming with blocks? 'Yes, we can all agree that this week's big Hour of Code initiative is a publicity stunt,' writes the Mercury News' Mike Cassidy, 'but you know what? A publicity stunt is exactly what we need.'"
That's an awful lot of "Hello World"!
Everything and its opposite is true. Get used to it.
computers can be tools that do what we tell them to do
How long have you been programming?
I'm curious... Are you a CTO, or a programmer?
I, too, would have no problem with a company paying a programmer $250K *IF* that programmer was ME.
Not only that, but:
> "and written 406,022,512 lines of code"
Sounds like a bad 5 weeks I had once 15 years ago.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Since they are all trained up, we can cancel all the H1B's for programmers/IT.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
I'd ask about Clojure, but I don't know what to call its users. Clojureners? Clojurists? Clojuristas? Quick - we need a standard before this gets out of hand.