Some Schools Are Blocking Replit to Prevent Kids from Coding

Re:Some Schools Are Blocking Replit to Prevent Kids from Coding by AbrahamParangi on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:21AM (#26425685)

Back when I went to high school, the tech curriculum was so rudimentary that the most knowledgeable programmers in the school were the self-taught teenage hackers.

From the school's perspective their relationship with programming was adversarial, trying to prevent students from breaking into things or defacing the lab equipment.

I wonder if this is still the case.

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Re:Some Schools Are Blocking Replit to Prevent Kids from Coding by h2odragon on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:30AM (#26425814)

I wasn't allowed to take the programming class at my high school because they were afraid to let me use the AT&T 3b2 they used.

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Re:Some Schools Are Blocking Replit to Prevent Kids from Coding by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:41AM (#26425959)

Of course that's still the case. Children are little shits and don't care if they cause everyone else a lot of work to undo whatever it was they thought was funny that day.

I know this because I was once that kid, and the universe gave me my comeuppance when I had to be a school system IT guy dealing with kids like me.

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Re:Some Schools Are Blocking Replit to Prevent Kids from Coding by antonzabirko on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:23AM (#26425717)

That's usually true even with a good curriculum...

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