At the end of the day, coding is only useful if you're going to write code.
I've taught one of my 3 kids - he wanted me to write minecraft mods (or edit other people's to his desires), and I already spend more than enough time at a keyboard, so he can now do it himself, though he sometimes still struggles with the reverse engineering part of what he wants.
I'm a full-stack developer with a passion for building beautiful and accessible UI. Everyone has a place on the internet, and it's up to developers to keep it that way.
I disagree with that, even if I went back to my previous profession of cooking at some point in the future, the problem-solving, and critical thinking I've learned from becoming a developer would go with me.
I'm a full-stack developer with a passion for building beautiful and accessible UI. Everyone has a place on the internet, and it's up to developers to keep it that way.
That's fair - I suppose I believe they just serve as a really really good way to teach those things, that can be accessible to everyone. Plus computers are such a big part of our lives, and we're so dependent on them as a species, having some grasp of how they speak to each other is important, even if it's just the basic principles.
I don't know about this.
If students knew about algorithms and how to "code" early on. I think math instruction would be easier. After all, a lot of arithmetic and algebra is nothing more than learning algorithms. Except they do it by example instead of explicitly.
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At the end of the day, coding is only useful if you're going to write code.
I've taught one of my 3 kids - he wanted me to write minecraft mods (or edit other people's to his desires), and I already spend more than enough time at a keyboard, so he can now do it himself, though he sometimes still struggles with the reverse engineering part of what he wants.
I disagree with that, even if I went back to my previous profession of cooking at some point in the future, the problem-solving, and critical thinking I've learned from becoming a developer would go with me.
Problem solving, and critical thinking, can be taught without code though, can't they?
For example, most breakdown recovery agents can solve some problems better than I can.
That's fair - I suppose I believe they just serve as a really really good way to teach those things, that can be accessible to everyone. Plus computers are such a big part of our lives, and we're so dependent on them as a species, having some grasp of how they speak to each other is important, even if it's just the basic principles.
I don't know about this.
If students knew about algorithms and how to "code" early on. I think math instruction would be easier. After all, a lot of arithmetic and algebra is nothing more than learning algorithms. Except they do it by example instead of explicitly.