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Re:An effort to bring computer science to all US high schools by saagarjha on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @01:42PM (#17920273)
That's ok as long as it's understood that these teachers aren't teaching a standard computer science class. But I'm not particularly optimistic that school administrators will understand the difference.
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Re:An effort to bring computer science to all US high schools by bob_loblaw on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @02:06PM (#17920466)
It has been my experience that school officials will offer some coding if that is what parents want. Coding, programming, and CS are used so interchangeably that often meaning is lost. So the bare minimum of coding classes will be presented as this massive shift toward STEM/CS, and parents will go along with it.
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Re:An effort to bring computer science to all US high schools by saagarjha on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @06:37PM (#17922452)
Again, that's ok as long as schools don't try to reuse these teachers to teach actual computer science courses later "because they already know some coding".
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