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Ivanka Trump To Take Coding Class With 5-Year-Old Daughter (hollywoodlife.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the core-curriculum dept.

theodp writes: Speaking about women in STEM at a Women's History Month event at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, new [unpaid] federal employee Ivanka Trump revealed she'll be taking a computer coding class with her 5-year-old daughter. "On a very personal level, as a mom I'm trying to do my part as well," Ivanka told the crowd. "My daughter Arabella and I are enrolling in a coding class this summer." Parroting supermodel Karlie Kloss (the girlfriend of Ivanka's brother-in-law), the first daughter added, "We're excited to learn this incredibly important new language together. Coding truly is the language of the future."

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  1. Lesson 1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    GOTO FAIL

    1. Re: Lesson 1 by bursch-X · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The country's infrastructure is already a shambles and I'm pretty sure Trump didn't do that.

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    2. Re: Lesson 1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      A typical one. You do realize that the majority of the ultra rich, the ones people complain about not paying taxes, tend to vote Democrat, right? Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos, they all tend to vote Democrat (I think officially they're registered independent). It's the middle class that tends to vote Republican, and the middle class doesn't make enough to do all the tax avoidance that the rich get. Hell, stop and think, next time Warren Buffet says income tax needs to be increased, think about who that hits. I'll give you a hint, the ultra rich don't typically have traditional "income" to be taxed.

    3. Re: Lesson 1 by DutchUncle · · Score: 5, Informative

      ... Warren Buffet says income tax needs to be increased ...

      No, Warren Buffet has said that it is illogical that he (making a lot of money) pays a lower tax rate than his secretary (making much less money), and has suggested that the EFFECTIVE TAX RATE on high income needs to be increased. On himself.

    4. Re: Lesson 1 by ScentCone · · Score: 5, Informative

      We have a plan for two people. Our state approved, ACA-mandated plan has a deductible of $13,100 - just for two people. Add children to that, and you're quickly much higher. That is NOT catastrophic insurance (on paper, anyway) - it's the Obamacare law that requires (say, in our case) people in their 50's to pay for full maternity insurance, drug treatment and mental health coverage whether we need or want it. There is zero chance of us having a baby now or in the future. Why are we required to buy coverage for that? Because the Democrats decided to charge a tax, and that's how they disguised it.

      Our rates have gone up over 50% per year every year since the ACA went into effect. Up 70% for 2017, and government says they expect next year (2018) to see another increase of close to 90% again. That's how they get around the "out of pocket" limits - by hugely increasing the monthly premiums, which are VERY MUCH out of pocket, but which don't get you a dime of actual health care. And no, "preventative care" is not covered. You get things like simple blood tests one a year (for which you pay part of the visit, and the lab costs), but of course no treatment of any kind - preventative or otherwise - is ever included in that. The ONLY thing that would be completely covered without requiring the deductible, is child birth. How's that for hilarious.

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    5. Re:Lesson 1 by sycodon · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If understand correctly, you are both saying that since her "daddy" is rich, and you don't like her daddy, then anything she does is automatically invalid.

      So she doesn't love her daughter, she doesn't really think coding is important, she doesn't really think girls should get into coding...because you don't like her daddy.

      Seems to me this is pretty much the kind of thinking the Leftists accuse Republicans of all the time.

      Ivanka is essentially lending support to the cause that Slashdot is constantly harping on. But because you don't like her "daddy", fuck her. Do I have that right?

      You HAVE read the story on Slashdot about Trolling, right? So are you two just a couple of monkey flinging poo?

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  2. Several languages! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait until they find out that there are (gasp!) several languages. And that the corresponding tribes are at war with each other!

    (Just yesterday I was nearly thrown over the bridge by a C# programmer)

    1. Re:Several languages! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      (Just yesterday I was nearly thrown over the bridge by a C# programmer)

      Let me guess, hetried to throw you, but you were caught?

      It wouldn't have worked anyway. You can't be thrown over (nor under) the bridge because C# has bound checking.

    2. Re:Several languages! by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 5, Funny

      (Just yesterday I was nearly thrown over the bridge by a C# programmer)

      Let me guess, hetried to throw you, but you were caught?

      I take exception to that.

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  3. Re: They really don't understand. by ewanm89 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A programming language is a language, it has its own syntax, grammar and vocabulary, though linguistic studies into such languages are rare (there are a couple of linguists studying the field though).

    Yes I would agree basic foundation is very important, so why the fuck are we not teaching decision and discrete mathematics. It is the relevant mathematics field to study but is an optional in most curriculums pre university and so not taught by most schools.

  4. Re: They really don't understand. by denzacar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because "math" translates as "hard", "discrete mathematics" translates as "incomprehensible" (i.e. super-hard) and "coding" translates as "being smart" and "making money with magic and chat apps/games".

    Don't you watch the internets?
    You want your kids to grow up to be Steve Jobses and Mark Zuckerbergses (i.e. rich) - not some math teacher teaching idiots how to add or whatever it is they do with math.

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  5. Missing the point by Minupla · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Put aside your cynicism for a moment. It's hard, I get that, but just for a moment....

    OK, ready?

    None of these coding initiatives are about teaching someone to code. It's about exposure. Think of football (or hockey, or ...) camp for 8 year olds. Very few of those kids are going on to a brilliant professional sporting career. So we should shut them down, treat any parent who enrolls their child in such a camp with derision, etc. Right? No? Why not?

    Because sometimes the experience is more important then the result.

    When I was 5, I got a chance to play with a Vic 20. My landlords' daughter showed me how to do the classic:

    10 PRINT "Hello World"
    20 GOTO 10

    I remember feeling the world change. It was a different place then before I wrote and ran that program. I *GOT* it. I knew this beige box was going to change everything.

    Years later, when I was about 8, the local Commodore club got a modem. I saw what it did and felt that feeling again. I pestered my mom to let me check it out from the hardware library for months before she agreed and I dialed into a local Radio Shack BBS. The sysop started a chat and we talked in chat. This was the future.

    In the years since, I ran a Fidonet network hub, ran two freenets in two cities, was the sole technical employee for a regional ISP in northern Canada, and have endeavored to make the world a slightly better place. To build the future I glimpsed when I was 5.

    You know what? Never became a programmer. I can barely program my way out of a wet paper bag to this day. I know the concepts and understand how to use those concepts in my professional life, but programming itself has never set my soul alight. Does that make the experience of the journey any less important? Does it mean that the 5 year old wasted his time?

    I'd argue no. I have no idea how my life might have changed if not for that chance encounter when I was 5. Maybe I'd still have followed the same life path. But for some of those kids getting exposed with the learn to code movement, statistically speaking, it will change their lives.

    For me, that's enough. My daughter went to Defcon (the hacker conference) when she was 3, so hopefully she got 2 years on me in feeling that wonder.

    Min

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  6. Re:Sick of the hypocrisy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You are so full shit shit. Hillary / Mrs. Obama pulled MUCH WORSE publicity stunts that tried to tackle controversial issues and got praised for it in the media. Then you have this "stunt" which is not controversial and should be praised by everyone, especially liberals who think women are are some sort of disadvantage in STEM, and she gets attacked for it. Do you understand the fucking irony? The very people who push for this type of shit day and night are attacking her.

    It is almost as if Liberals WANT the pain and suffering of being incompetent so they can complain and get more votes and entitlements. Heaven forbid a woman role model tried to SOLVE SOMETHING by showing women they can learn something new and "uncomfortable" at the same time as teaching their kids. No we need Hillary, the corrupt fuck who wipes a server "what, like with a cloth". Yeah, that is the fucking role model we need. Hillary talks about solving problems but does nothing - and even worse - attack women when armies of lawyers.

    So... Fuck you. People like you are the reason this nation sucks.