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Today's CS pedagogy is problematic

Just got helping my sibling prep for their CS exam today. They are one grade below being an undergraduate so math was not an issue at all. They have trouble understanding college classes hence tutions but the latter is even worse.So here's the thing. When i was 10, school taught us qbasic and html. That was my first brush with programming which i tried out on cmd itself. Far forward 5 years, we...

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