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Re:Japan adding mandatory programming education to all eleme... by corecoder on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @09:38AM (#11761378)
Similar experience, except I did some mocking (just a little bit!); the course (Pascal, mostly) was not great, but I'd say it was useful, and students did learn something.
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Re:Japan adding mandatory programming education to all eleme... by nextos on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @10:09AM (#11761606)
I think Pascal is not the right choice.

My not-so-visionary private European school taught us Logo (a Lisp dialect) during kindergarden and primary years. I vividly recall playing with recursion when I was 9.

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