>> We learn math at school. I used trigonometry last week to create some cool android interaction mode, but I bet most of my classmates forgot it at 18, and only wish they remember it when it comes up on a TV quiz show. It will be the same with code.
Good. Maybe 90% of people never use the knowledge again. Maybe 99%. That still leaves 1% who learned it, absorbed it fully and use it to improve the world.
Computers run so very much of the world around us now, not giving people the chance to be educated to the level where they can meaningfully contribute is just plain wrong. Without this happening in school, most people will never have a chance.
Good. Maybe 90% of people never use the knowledge again. Maybe 99%. That still leaves 1% who learned it, absorbed it fully and use it to improve the world.
Computers run so very much of the world around us now, not giving people the chance to be educated to the level where they can meaningfully contribute is just plain wrong. Without this happening in school, most people will never have a chance.