There are a lot of programmers on the ADHD/Autism spectrum.
These types of people sometimes do very poorly in school due to the structure of learning. I'm bad at math. Growing up, CS was all about math. As a result I started very late. Speaking purely for myself, (also as someone who predates Google), mandatory programming classes would have likely turned me off programming by a lot.
Or maybe I'd have designed a quantum computer by now. Who knows.
My point is, forcing someone to learn something rarely goes well and can be very gatekeeper'y
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There are a lot of programmers on the ADHD/Autism spectrum.
These types of people sometimes do very poorly in school due to the structure of learning. I'm bad at math. Growing up, CS was all about math. As a result I started very late. Speaking purely for myself, (also as someone who predates Google), mandatory programming classes would have likely turned me off programming by a lot.
Or maybe I'd have designed a quantum computer by now. Who knows.
My point is, forcing someone to learn something rarely goes well and can be very gatekeeper'y