I think this is an interesting read, but my opinion on this is “why aren’t we teaching kids to code _anymore?_”https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/1067079340507217920 …
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I read it! The biggest issue with the U.K. way of doing it was that they basically just told a bunch of teachers with no prior computing experience to start teaching programming
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I don't know anything about schooling in the UK. I have no first hand experience of what it is like, but it seems really bad. At my school, not in the UK, we had no issues with teachers teaching us coding because we have no issues training women to be coders.
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I think the baseline level of knowledge is low everywhere in the U.K. to be honest. When I did IT at school (2004-2009) it involved learning how to use Excel and PowerPoint - no programming at all
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And I did "computing" in HS in 94-00 and we did Pascal, Logo, 6502 assembler, Prolog and some horror that never took off called primex. I am *convinced* that some time after that a decision was taken to give a dumbed down "more general" IT eduction in IT/ICT and now here we are.
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This wasn't a private school by the way, it was a Scottish state school.
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But hey maybe I'm wrong and it's actually the school. I just looked at the curriculum on my old school's website and look at this: http://portobellohighschool.org.uk/departments/computing/curriculum …
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There seems to be healthy amount of programming courses on there at all levels. It could be a Scotland vs England thing, does someone have an English school to compare with?
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