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We should rethink how we teach people to code
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this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2025
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The English national curriculum exposes every child to programming of some sort. 10 years ago it was 8yo kids learning Scratch, all of them.
I posted about it at the time: it turns out scratch is probably the answer, scratch is probably still the answer
in high school maths and computers they learn python.
my kid has no wish to become a professional dev, but can wield python as is useful to them.
When I was a kid in France it was Basic on TI and Casio graphing calculators, while in principle I agree that not every child will enjoy math, the sieve of Eratosthenes, LCM and GCD are good exercises for a first program. And i think it's easy to grasp that it's a lot less tedious to write a program for it, than to do it by hand.