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Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper
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As a teacher, I already have to teach half the kids how to even use a computer because they only ever used phones and tablets. And I am not going to be able to teach them programming without laptops.
I think it's fair to expect students to use computers in a programming class. I don't know if there's a need for students to be using computers for the entire school day
I say: If they can earn a good grade with a phone, then fine. If that's not supposed to be able to happen, then there's probably something wrong with the course.
Nah, just a TI-84 and teach them programming in BASIC
Start the little devils running boxes of punch cards, then make them sneak into the lab at night to write their own punch card software for games and secret messages. How else are we going to get them ready for the real world?