Re Tech's push to teach coding isn't about kids' success – it's about cutting wages | Technology | The Guardian

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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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¢,
>
> --Ridge
>
> > On 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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