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Re:The Missing Semester of Your CS Education by lordnacho on Saturday February 25, 2023 @02:47PM (#34939779)
But is it common for kids to be taught how to code before they come to uni? I would imagine it's not that easy to find someone to teach that sort of thing, so then the only kids who graduate high school with any tech skills are the ones who did it themselves.

Your point about engineering is exactly right. I built a working radio in my first term, having never done anything like it before, save for acing some physics exams with minimal electricity sections. When we came to coding, I had mucked about a bit with a computer, but I also found other students who'd worked at Microsoft. Wide wide range, and a lot of people of course ended up getting that fellow to email them the solution.

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Re:The Missing Semester of Your CS Education by ghaff on Saturday February 25, 2023 @04:02PM (#34940431)
Even if it's more like hacking around in Python than being "properly" taught, I assume that it's pretty common for a technically-inclined and motivated high school student to play around with a Raspberry Pi. I imagine I'd be doing so if I were in high school today. In addition to books, there are also some pretty breezy intro to programming MOOCs out there that wouldn't be out of the reach of a smart high-schooler.
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