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A comment on I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neither Should You (2018).

Re:I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neith... by jkhdigital on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:05AM (#23447856)
My son is almost 6 and I can say with near certainty that he will learn to code regardless of what I have to say about it. He is absolutely mesmerized by computers and as soon as he discovers that he can tell them exactly what to do he will most likely teach himself. It’s exactly what I did—my father worked at IBM and we always had a fairly capable PC at home but he was a mechanical engineer so I was on my own for learning to code.

I really hope we don’t add coding to the laundry list of rote skills that kids are evaluated on in school. Sure, make it available for those who are interested, but let’s be honest—most kids will have little interest in coding, and forcing them to learn it anyways will not provide any lasting benefit.

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Re:I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neith... by _curious_ on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:23AM (#23448002)
"I really hope we don’t add coding to the laundry list of rote skills that kids are evaluated on in school."

Why?

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Re:I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neith... by sebastialonso on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:26PM (#23468675)
Seriously.

> Sure, make it available for those who are interested, but let’s be honest—most kids will have little interest in coding, and forcing them to learn it anyways will not provide any lasting benefit.

This could apply to mathematically skills also. Personally, I would never raise any kids under this ideology. It seems to foster ignorance and conformism.

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Re:I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neith... by slim on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:24AM (#23448011)
you can't tell. my kid was like that at 6 and now he's 14 and he's only interested in gaming, marginally hacking (rooting his console and playing pirate games) but not writing code. I feel he finds it boring, too tedious, error prone, repetitive process.
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