Re:Microsoft MakeCode
by nukeop on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:51AM
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Most people don't have the analytical approach engineering-minded people have. They understand most of their surrounding reality in terms of blackboxes. Pull a trigger and a bullet comes out. Press a button and receive a parking card. Touch the screen and the facebook app launches. They're not interested in the internal mechanisms. And if you're not already interested in that, then no amount of coding bootcamps are going to spark that interest.
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Re:Microsoft MakeCode
by madeofpalk on Thursday January 18, 2018 @05:19AM
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Sure, but a lot of people don't have the mindset required for cooking or construction or sports, yet these are still things we teach in school and try to make accessible for more people.
Or any of the liberal arts.
The "well rounded" argument works both ways!
To an extent though, is that something that you're born with, or something you can be taught? I think a lot of people attribute something to 'genetics' just because their parents have a particular trait. Parents are also the people raising you, so they have the highest impact regardless of genetics
Sure, most people don't, but an increasing number of people do.
Most people a few centuries ago used to think about the world without any scientific awareness.
There are still people like that, and there always will be, but people in developed nations with an education are far more scientific in their thinking as an average trend.
The same will be true of the analytical mindset for coding