Re:Computer Science was supposed to be taught to everyone, a...
by atonse on Sunday November 28, 2021 @10:49AM
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Totally agree here. I got closer to my now closest friends from the time we spent in computer club in middle school.
And even though we all learned the same thing (karel the robot, quick basic), for each of us it was a gateway drug to something different.
Two of my friends took that knowledge and started playing with making animations and animated text in quickbasic.
I used it to write music with the play command. I eventually learned HTML and my first website was about stealth aircraft. (SR-71, F-117A)
We all ended up doing different things. Our passions still dictated what we did with our programming knowledge.
It’s the exposure and creating the spark that’s key.
This is good thing. Unless parents actively taught kids to use computer, they don't know how to do it. Many kids don't even have all that much access to computer before having classes in school. Household have one, but it is occupied either by parents or by older sibling.
Even kids of IT people can easily end up not knowing how to open file, edit it, view website copy it or do anything else simple.
If schools skip the step of teaching kids to use computer, those kids don't stand a chance in classes that assume that knowledge.