Interview by a 15 Year Old

Re:Interview by a 15 Year Old by scrollaway on Saturday November 07, 2015 @12:22PM (#10525419)

You don't see the point in teaching kids the fundamentals of how every machine in their life works?

Media and politicians right now are abusing the fact that a large amount of the population is tech-illiterate. People can't comment on issues that affect their lives in major, invisible ways because they don't know the implication of, say for example, banning encryption (cf. uk politics currently).

This has to change and it starts with education.

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Re:Interview by a 15 Year Old by vezzy-fnord on Saturday November 07, 2015 @02:18PM (#10525857)

Learning an ALGOL-like notation doesn't magically make you competent to speak of cryptography. In fact, it almost by definition does not teach you the fundamentals.

There's no reason to believe programming classes will be at all useful for anything, other than to impart false knowledge.

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