10 May
2010
10 May
'10
11:53 a.m.
From: Tony Duell
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 9:57 AM
I agree with the statemetn that 'every child
should learn to program.
Not because they will become programmer,s but becuase programming
teaches you to think logically about solving problems and to break up
problems into simple steps'/ Or something like that anyway...
Hmm. Much the same thing used to be said of the teaching of Latin to
grammar school students.
There's always *something* that we ought to be teaching children, in
order to let/make them "think logically about solving problems". There
is no such magic formula. Humans are not logical, no matter what they
may think of themselves, and there is nothing to be done about that.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
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