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Re:BBC begins kids coding push with Bitesize and TV shows by Already__Taken on Monday September 01, 2014 @02:29PM (#8254118)
If you want to be really cynical, it's GCHQ wanting a bigger talent pool.
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Re:BBC begins kids coding push with Bitesize and TV shows by pbhjpbhj on Monday September 01, 2014 @04:54PM (#8254651)
But this just puts the power of computing in the hands of the grubby proletariat rather than preserving it for the rich. Surely that's not a Conservative policy move ...
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Re:BBC begins kids coding push with Bitesize and TV shows by gaius on Monday September 01, 2014 @05:18PM (#8254734)
It was Thatchers govt who introduced the original BBC computer literacy project 30 years ago.

Teaching kids to code is very much a Tory thing.

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Re:BBC begins kids coding push with Bitesize and TV shows by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @12:44PM (#8258648)
Didn't the initiative for the project come from the BBC rather than from the Conservative led government of the time?
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