http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/04/estonia-code-academy/ Estonia is implementing a new education program that will have 100 percent of publicly educated students learning to write code. ProgreTiiger education will start with students in the first grade, which starts around the age of 7 or 8 for Estonians. The compsci education will continue through a student’s final years of public school...
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Anonymous2012-09-05 20:23
cool. programming is very important today. today's programs in goevernment are more effective than any old law passed by politicians.
great move for estonian people.
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Anonymous2012-09-05 20:35
Meanwhile, nobody in Estonia can afford a computer.
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Anonymous2012-09-05 20:55
computers are fucking cheap. not eveyone wants or care to have an apple notebook
Rather than truly teaching kids about computers, we’re teaching them to see the machines and programs as mysterious tools
We conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells
But seriously they need to do this right and I don't like how it doesn't give any real details on the program, god knows they're going to be shoving FIOC or BASIC or something equally useless and shitty which will just make them hate programming. If they ain't teaching them LISP, it's shit.
>>5
I started with BASIC and that didn't keep me from learning functional programming and Lisp. "What you know about computing other people will learn."¹
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Programming is fun. "I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun."¹
1. Alan J Perlis
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Anonymous2012-09-05 23:37
>>6
They totally had mandatory programming classes in SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN
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Anonymous2012-09-06 1:36
>>7 Programming is fun.
Here, have some Java, dicklover.
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Anonymous2012-09-06 1:42
>>5
They will teach them practical knowledge on how to write robust ransomware using Visual Basic .NET
Well, at least the people in most Programming 101 courses don't like it.
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Anonymous2012-09-06 12:00
"programming" class will actually be "learn this shitty proprietary software based on paradigm-de-jour". It'll do more harm than good, we'll just end up something a bit like math where everything "hates" programming despite being utterly clueless about it.
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I decided I would switch majors and start pursuing my new civil engineering major, since I'm tired of the [b][i]ENTERPRISE[/i][/b] bullshit and I've always been a transport autist.
programming is not something someone should be encouraged to go into professionally. it's extremely boring and extremely unrewarding, probably the worst profession one could have.
[quote]science (noun): a department of systematized knowledge as an object of study[/quote]
Yes.
[quote]engineering (noun)
a : the application of science and mathematics by which the properties of matter and the sources of energy in nature are made useful to people
b : the design and manufacture of complex products[quote]
Yes.
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Actually, it has to do with the peculiar "computer engineering" programs in my country. Our "computer engineering" includes lot of math (fun), intermediate programming (fun while it lasted), and ENTERPRISE development + economics + PROJECT MANAGEMENT + USE CASES + UML (not fun at all).
I expected >>27, but got a weird mixture between computer engineering, computer science, software engineering and code monkeying.