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| Apr 13, 2018 at 3:40 | comment | added | Gypsy Spellweaver | @CarlSmith Don't think of programming as the goal, think of is as the vehicle. Learning to program engages a different mental mode of analysis that is useful in any endeavor. Read the entire paper from Wing, not just my excerpts, and it might help with the "teaching programming to non-programmers" issue. Programming is replacing the now absent courses on rhetoric. | |
| Apr 13, 2018 at 2:52 | comment | added | Carl Younger | I deleted my last comment as it came across differently to what I'd intended, sorry. I really appreciate this answer, and upvoted it, as it contains a lot of useful, relevant information. That said, the issue really is to do with programming specifically, rather than computational thinking, which is much more general. The issue we're having is that every child will spend five years learning to program (typically with Python or JS), and most will not become professional programmers, and it is not obvious what programming skills they need. We don't really know what an ideal outcome looks like. | |
| Apr 13, 2018 at 2:27 | vote | accept | Carl Younger | ||
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| Apr 12, 2018 at 4:57 | history | answered | Gypsy Spellweaver | CC BY-SA 3.0 |