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A comment on Japan adding mandatory programming education to all elementary schools. Parent comment

Re:Japan adding mandatory programming education to all eleme... by ThomPete on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @09:11AM (#11761225)
Learning to program is a very very different thing. You can use programming to learn math and play games and mix the two.

My son loves learning programming. He isn't learning it like you and i learned math. He is playing it. Adjusting it, slowly understanding the concepts of loops, if/then etc. conceptually, later literally.

So at least I don't se your point :)

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Re:Japan adding mandatory programming education to all eleme... by kazagistar on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @10:18AM (#11761680)
The point is that you can play and experiment with math. But compulsory education turns it into pointless shitty drills that make most students hate it.
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Re:Japan adding mandatory programming education to all eleme... by ThomPete on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @10:31AM (#11761831)
That completely depends on how education of it is executed.
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