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Another excellent piece from Iris Meredith - strongly recommend reading if you want an idea of how to un-fuck software as a field.
Another excellent piece from Iris Meredith - strongly recommend reading if you want an idea of how to un-fuck software as a field.
The English national curriculum exposes every child to programming of some sort. 10 years ago it was 8yo kids learning Scratch, all of them.
I posted about it at the time: it turns out scratch is probably the answer, scratch is probably still the answer
in high school maths and computers they learn python.
my kid has no wish to become a professional dev, but can wield python as is useful to them.
When I was a kid in France it was Basic on TI and Casio graphing calculators, while in principle I agree that not every child will enjoy math, the sieve of Eratosthenes, LCM and GCD are good exercises for a first program. And i think it’s easy to grasp that it’s a lot less tedious to write a program for it, than to do it by hand.
I hadn’t seen this post of yours before. I like it. I like it a lot.
My $SPROG can’t really read very well yet but she can open a saved program in Scratch and run it and show off the results, in SUGAR. I was so proud.
IoM cribs from the ENC, here’s to them cribbing that bit! See if you can get in there …