don't they need to know english and arithmetic first???
Posted on 10/11/2015 8:59:01 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, who hopes to make coding a requirement to graduate high school.
Currently, Emanuel is aiming to make coding an essential requirement for high schoolers in Chicago by 2018, and it's his hope that the entire nation might follow its example.
So what do you folks think about Mayor Emanuel's thoughts on coding?
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Thanx D.C.
My dad was a teacher and principal in the Chicago public schools for some odd 40 years. The way you get these kids out of the ghetto, by proven experience, has nothing whatever to do with focusing on a particular skill set fad. It has to do with giving them the opportunity to succeed or fail on their own effort, in whatever they do. Too many of these kids are so dysfunctional they are just pushed through the system like so much cattle, dropped off at the end, and relegated to continuing the dysfunction into the next generation. The teachers are in fear of their lives, so they don’t rock the boat. My dad rocked the boat. He was helping them escape poverty by putting them up to a stiff challenge and helping those who showed they had the drive turn that drive into success.
And coding shmoding. I’m a coder. There are niches where a person can avoid the problem of competition from cheap imported labor. But they are far and few between. Emmanuel’s plan seems better calculated to make programming even more of a generic commodity than it already is. The problem is, the dime-a-dozen programmers are a known quantity, and when you need the hard stuff done right, you still have to go back to the rock stars. You know who you are. That hasn’t changed too much since the invention of Eniac. It is what it is. Modern coding tools have helped migrate some superior practices into the lower tiers, but the good coders are ten times better than the average coder, and they’re the ones who make that world turn, and have the corresponding earnings, mostly. Always gonna be some outliers.
Peace,
SR
No, he's a modern guy. It's graft# and corruption++. ;-)
don't they need to know english and arithmetic first???
Any way they already teach coding in schools...
White privilege, etc.
sup
{
gimme fibo b*tch
a be 1 b*tch
b be 1 b*tch
putou a b*tch
putou b b*tch
fibo be fibo widout 2 b*tch
slongas (fibo bepimpin 0)
c be a an b b*tch
a be b b*tch
b be c b*tch
putou b b*tch
dissin fibo b*tch
nomo
}
Code words. Next they will learn how to make dog whistles.
You got it.
Only the whistles will be given away free by the party.
Probably one with every Obama phone.
Wait, don’t they already have a Obama phone dog whistle app?
dear God... LOLOLOL!!!!! written in E++ right?
It’s clear you don’t know what you are doing. You forgot gimmedat(word) at the end of the function.
I can’t stop laughing at this. It’s Ghetto C. I almost want to write a compiler or translator for this. Hahahahhahahahahahaha ... :-)
Even so, this is a BAD IDEA. Most people do not have the aptitude for computer programming. Perhaps only 30% of the population does. Forcing the other 70% to endure that is wrong.
Let every individual do what he or she is best at, or what is needed in their own communities.
Hilarious. Ebonics++.
Sure. And make sure to inflate grades for those who don’t have the capacity to learn. Can’t make them feel bad about their failure.
Lol
My 12 year old is dying to learn more coding. I wish it was in schools. He has been “hacking” since he was 7, thrown out of the kiddie online game Toontown twice for it (I admit to being proud) before age 10. Now he wants to learn Python.
I don’t know why Rahm is going for it. He should include marksmanship as well: maybe less innocent bystanders would get shot each weekend in Chicago.
They need more Americans in programming so they have more opportunities to replace them with Indians.
Bill Gates and Steve jobs were coders, I guess we need more billionaires overseas. It is also possible to find “win-win”, deal-makin’, asshats overseas for 2 bits an hour- just saying.
A country that makes nothing is nothing.
“Perhaps I am old school, but I believe real programming is an art form, that people are either born for or not. Sure people can learn the mechanics like people can learn to play a guitar, but anyone can tell the difference between somebody who learned to play a guitar and somebody who was born for it.”
I have to agree. There is a third component however and that is passion or liking for programming. You can have a person with a little talent but a lot of passion for it and they do well. I personally have a talent for programmin but not that much passion for it so I am not as productive as I would like.
That’s about the most stupid idea Rahm’s come up with yet. How about teaching them to read, write and do arithmetic?
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