17/10/2021
The argument on teaching coding because society
needs more professional coders is a stretch. We teach music and sport in schools because of the inherent value in music and sport rather than because we need more professional musicians and sportspeople. Incidentally, programmers are often the sharpest critics of teaching coding, as they think it detracts from the coding profession. One coding class at school does not make a professional programmer.
However, The benefits fall loosely into three groups:
1. teaching children general problem-solving and design skills – essentially the arguments for computational thinking;
2. introducing the students to the environments they will be using in the future; and
3. encouraging more students to take up careers in coding, with benefit to society and the workforce.
يرى ميتش ريسنيك من معهد ماساتشوستس للتقنية من مختبر الوسائط أن البرمجة ليست حكرا على عباقرة الحاسوب وحدهم بل هو متاح للجميع. ويعرض ريسنيك من خلال عرضه المرح والمليء ...
