Re:An effort to bring computer science to all US high schools
by rhacker on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @08:31PM
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I once knew a guy who thought that CS or programming at least was going to be the new glue for ALL industries. So even if people end up specializing in law, CS will be useful. He told me that about 15 years ago.
But yes, definitely agree with you, and it can start with basic contracts, implied and written.
For my 2 cents, if there's one thing we need to teach in schools, it's being nice. No one is "nice" anymore, except for innately nice people. Everyone seems to be out of niceness. I LOVE meeting people that are 50+ because, well, they are nice.
It used to be something inherited from parents, but it just keeps slipping generation to generation.
Re:An effort to bring computer science to all US high schools
by cliffordthedog on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @08:10PM
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I think most are less obnoxious about it.
Everyone thinks that their field should be better emphasized at highschools. I think kids should get some background in law (not laws, law) given they will have to go on and obey laws for the rest of their lives. But I know that isn't going to happen. I used to teach 2/3rd year university kids. Highschools need to spend more time teaching kids how to read because, atm, they aren't. I was facing people in their 20s who had trouble reading more than a page or two at a time, who couldn't string together sentences into coherent paragraphs. (Also, basic numeracy.)