I agree that "coding" shouldn't be mandatory, but would the author still refuse to teach it if his kid expressed interest in the field?
I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neither Should You
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#12I am teaching all 12 of my kids to code. Two already have successful sass products and one built a cryptocurrency exchange. Coding is where the big money is. Elon musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates. If anything, coding is a great launchpad onto another adventure as in the life of Musk. Keep your head up, heart open, and code on! The metaverse is opening soon ;)
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#13I'm a Developer. I will teach my kids to code, not just the syntax of a specific language. There's a big difference. "To code" is language agnostic. That's were the important things like logical thinking and problem solving skills are.
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#14Slightly off topic, but I'm reading this on Brave for Android with an ad blocker. The site manages to show an ad. No big deal. The site also hijacks my back button. When I try to come back here, it says please don't go, read some more stuff. Perhaps someone should teach that web developer how websites and browsers are supposed to work. Good thing Brave allows me to block JavaScript, and a little ironic given that Bra…
I used Bromite (another fork of Chrome mobile) and had non of the issues you mentioned.
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#16Slightly off topic, but I'm reading this on Brave for Android with an ad blocker. The site manages to show an ad. No big deal. The site also hijacks my back button. When I try to come back here, it says please don't go, read some more stuff. Perhaps someone should teach that web developer how websites and browsers are supposed to work. Good thing Brave allows me to block JavaScript, and a little ironic given that Bra…
I used Bromite (another fork of Chrome mobile) and had non of the issues you mentioned.
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#17This seems like a clickbait title. Author makes the coding to be some sort of strawman to mean just learning the syntax and then attacks upon it just so he can have a controversial title, but not wrong at the same time.
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#18Teaching children "coding" is as useful as teaching them any other trade, like carpentry. Something that can be a hobby, side business or become a real occupation. But it's absolutely non essential. Most people will never even gain an ounce of understanding for any aspect of software development and THAT IS OK. I would argue that the majority of people that are considered successful do not know how to code. Also, res…
I highly disagree with this. Programming, if taught correctly, teaches kids how to think, similarly as to how math does. In my opinion people in most professions would benefit tremendously from being able to reason correctly deductively and from knowing how to approach complex problems, which are skills that a good programming education will give you.
Does it really? I’ve worked with good programmers who will look thick as two short planks if you ask them to solve a maths problem, summarise a science article, rebut a philosophical argument, analyse a novel’s structure, figure out an unknown word’s meaning, etc etc. We all know STEM people who seem bafflingly stupid outside of their chosen specialties. Those who have well-rounded educations more often seem more smart and able to reason than people whose only tool is the rigid logic of programming/math. I don’t think STEM is an automatic pathway to above average smarts.
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#19Slightly off topic, but I'm reading this on Brave for Android with an ad blocker. The site manages to show an ad. No big deal. The site also hijacks my back button. When I try to come back here, it says please don't go, read some more stuff. Perhaps someone should teach that web developer how websites and browsers are supposed to work. Good thing Brave allows me to block JavaScript, and a little ironic given that Bra…
I used Bromite (another fork of Chrome mobile) and had non of the issues you mentioned.
Interesting. I can't always repro. Maybe it depends on the ad.
Is Bromite available on Google Play?
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#20Teaching children "coding" is as useful as teaching them any other trade, like carpentry. Something that can be a hobby, side business or become a real occupation. But it's absolutely non essential. Most people will never even gain an ounce of understanding for any aspect of software development and THAT IS OK. I would argue that the majority of people that are considered successful do not know how to code. Also, res…
I highly disagree with this. Programming, if taught correctly, teaches kids how to think, similarly as to how math does. In my opinion people in most professions would benefit tremendously from being able to reason correctly deductively and from knowing how to approach complex problems, which are skills that a good programming education will give you.
Almost everything teaches people how to think. Coding just gets a privileged position in the minds of techies. We don’t see people saying “teach kids to read professional history” or “teach kids dance” in the same way as we see people treating coding like the best way to expand minds.