If coding was mandatory, it may have shortened the time it took me to figure out what I wanted to do as an adult or it could have turned me off completely. I was always told I was bad at math as a youth. However, that ended up being my college major. The thing is, when I got to college I had more freedom to explore the things I liked. Of course, I never had performance problems when it came to other subjects. I think the make or break thing for a coding course would be taking an approach similar to the arts rather than math. I took computer classes when I was younger, and they were interesting but ultimately didn't really capture the imagination. Art was always great though because art classes involved looking at completed works and learning how to do something similar. Rote memorization and thoughtless reproduction kill inspiration and should not be widely used in academia, yet those techniques form the backbone of teaching styles for STEM in pre-college levels.
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If coding was mandatory, it may have shortened the time it took me to figure out what I wanted to do as an adult or it could have turned me off completely. I was always told I was bad at math as a youth. However, that ended up being my college major. The thing is, when I got to college I had more freedom to explore the things I liked. Of course, I never had performance problems when it came to other subjects. I think the make or break thing for a coding course would be taking an approach similar to the arts rather than math. I took computer classes when I was younger, and they were interesting but ultimately didn't really capture the imagination. Art was always great though because art classes involved looking at completed works and learning how to do something similar. Rote memorization and thoughtless reproduction kill inspiration and should not be widely used in academia, yet those techniques form the backbone of teaching styles for STEM in pre-college levels.