iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Little More Affordable

Re:iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Lit... by baron816 on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @10:21PM (#23993754)

I'm not totally sold on the merits of teaching kids to code. I didn't learn how to code until I was 27 and turned out fine.

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Re:iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Lit... by czbond on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:40PM (#23994373)

I'm going to be downvoted if I don't preface this statement: CompSci, know quite a few languages well enough. Good at it.

I sure as heck hope that when my kids are career age - they're doing something a bit higher up the stack than programming. Even if it's meta-programming. Programming is a convoluted way of interacting with business logic.

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Re:iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Lit... by imtringued on Thursday July 30, 2020 @03:26AM (#23995543)

They already do. We don't have to touch a single assembly statement in our entire lives if we don't want to.

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Re:iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Lit... by czbond on Thursday July 30, 2020 @10:36AM (#23998674)

touche ;)

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Re:iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Lit... by ponker on Thursday July 30, 2020 @01:19AM (#23994938)

Why teach kids how to do anything? Why teach them math, swimming, writing, eating healthy, etc? You can find people who didn’t learn any of this stuff until they were 27 and “turned out fine.”

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Re:iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Lit... by turnerc on Thursday July 30, 2020 @12:19AM (#23994643)

I completely agree here, it seems like they are just playing into education's concept of code=STEM job, or maybe it's a new Roomba recruitment drive...

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