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Re Tech's push to teach coding isn't about kids' success – it's about cutting wages | Technology | The Guardian
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:51:05 -0400
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From: "Evers Ridgely C." <rce () evers org> Date: September 22, 2017 at 9:13:57 AM EDT To: Farber David <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] Tech's push to teach coding isn't about kids' success – it's about cutting wages | Technology | The Guardian Dave, This strikes me akin to re-fighting the last war. And, like that approach, it is doomed to fail. In my 50 years of writing code and being in the technology industry, it has gotten progressively easier to do the ordinary stuff, and the percentage of stuff that falls into the "ordinary" category is growing rapidly. A decade from now, when the current crop is in the workforce, it's not hard to imagine that much of the programming and development work will be automated. Yes, there will always be a need for the truly gifted. And, it's a good idea to familiarize the rising generation with the concepts underlying how their world works. But to hold out a promise of acquiring skills that will lead to a high-paying career is just wrong. We should be teaching kids how to think and reason and solve problems and be creative -- foundational skills that are increasingly left out of curricula because they don't link directly to a job -- because those abilities are enduringly valuable in a world whose rate of change continues to accelerate. My 2¢, --RidgeOn Sep 21, 2017, at 9:42 PM, DAVID FARBER <dfarber () me com> wrote: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/coding-education-teaching-silicon-valley-wages
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