Coding comes to Primary Schools

[Bilbo]

Back in the day each kid in the block knew how to make games for old consoles...
Programming is already a vital subject in College, at least for me. I wouldn't see it as a bad one for primary schools as a voluntary subject.

[[WS]Jacob]

It's about time. Although the teachers will have to learn how to program in order to teach it and that's slightly worrying. Considering that I know more about word processing than my IT Teacher.

[EenBeeFour]

http://scratch.mit.edu/

 

...That was pointless, I don't even want the damn program again

[Pandalink]

If you see the bigger picture, then actually its not about programming a computer but about giving them a advanced, problem solving and organised mindset

This is pretty much it. These applications doesn't really teach you actually how to program, but they do help you to learn problem solving skills which are a very important for actual programming and are (more importantly) very transferable.


As a side note, f**k C# man (and OO structure in general frankly). I swear I'm just using a sledgehammer to punch code into arbitrarily arranged classes without any real structure, and half my damn variables are public. I've only been working on my assignment piece for like 4 days and the class structure is already basically beyond repair. Also, all of my sprites and most of their information are hardcoded into the Sprite class, rather than into corresponding sprite specific classes that merely inherit what they actually need.

 

[Ben.]

Meh, maybe this isn't a good thing...all it will do is push up the qualifications needed to move into the programming industry.

[Pandalink]

Meh, maybe this isn't a good thing...all it will do is push up the qualifications needed to move into the programming industry.

Surely that would only mean that the best programmers got the best jobs?
Also, it's not as if the industry is saturated with loads of high quality programmers. They're in pretty high demand.

[Ben.]

Its a classic, though...we'll get a generation full of programmers, and will then be lacking people in other areas...  :redface:

[Pandalink]

Its a classic, though...we'll get a generation full of programmers, and will then be lacking people in other areas...  :redface:

But the programmers can make more advanced programs to run more advanced machines and robots to do those jobs.

Then the robots will become sentient and learn to program themselves, and thus the programmers will all be out of jobs.




















and then the robots will kill us all

[Sphex]

and then the robots will kill us all

Gundams.

[JDC]

and then the robots will kill us all

Maybe that's why the government are so slow to advance the technology?