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Re:Kids to learn how to code before high school in New Zealand by dmoo on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @12:03PM (#14655305)
Seems like a whole bunch of things that basic coding might help with. eg '- follow instructions in a book to do a simple task' becomes write instructions in a computer to do a simple task '- write a letter explaining directions in a clear way' becomes describe how to use your program '- understand correlation is different from causality' debugging your program will help here etc.
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Re:Kids to learn how to code before high school in New Zealand by sametmax on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @04:37PM (#14658122)
It's just a question of priority and numbers of hours in a day. You can't write code without knowing how to read and do calculus.
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Re:Kids to learn how to code before high school in New Zealand by photojosh on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @11:46PM (#14660608)
> do calculus

What? I have university-level calculus (up to multi-variable integration etc), and can't think of the last time I needed it for coding.

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Re:Kids to learn how to code before high school in New Zealand by sametmax on Thursday June 29, 2017 @02:51AM (#14661288)
Basic maths. French here.
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