Programming for everyone: a new literacy standard
Anyone should be able to read and write - once this thesis was the subject of discussion, they said that these were skills for the “higher caste”, but from the 16th – 19th centuries everyone agreed that literacy is really necessary for everyone.
What about programming? Is it possible in the 21st century to recognize the knowledge of programming languages as a new standard of universal literacy? Recently, the idea of programming from the first grade of school is gaining popularity, because digital technologies are beginning to play a critical role in people's daily lives.
Even the 70-year-old mayor of New York, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, recently enrolled in Javascript courses.
A person who can read and write is able to compose a text of any form and purpose: from a small note to a sonnet and a novel (with sufficiently developed skills). A person who knows the basics of programming also discovers completely new possibilities in life: he can automate routine tasks and use powerful tools for information processing. And most importantly, the potential of information technology is so great that only learning how to program all people is able to reveal it in earnest.
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For example, the founder of the startup Developer Bootcamp is confident that programming will become a new literacy rate in 20-30 years. Everyone should be able to encode, because man / car and car / man communications will become as common as man / man. Those who cannot program will find themselves in the same position as those who cannot read and write 200 years ago. They had to ask others to read a note or write a letter, because they themselves did not know how. Exactly the same situation now with programming, he says .
The movement for universal knowledge programming intensified at the end of 2011, when the online project Codecademy started working, providing free online programming courses for everyone, and their mission is also based on the thesis that every person in the world should know at least a simple scripted PL .
However, not all programmers perceive the idea of a “new standard of literacy”. For example, recently a great resonance was caused by the article “ Please do not learn programming! ”From renowned developer Jeff Atwood, founder of StackOverflow.com.
He mocks those who learn only basic programming skills. For example, above the mayor of New York, who in 2012 also enrolled in Codecademy courses. According to Atwood, at the final exam, Mayor Bloomberg will be able to write something like this:
Java-: , ?
«/» «/», , .
What about programming? Is it possible in the 21st century to recognize the knowledge of programming languages as a new standard of universal literacy? Recently, the idea of programming from the first grade of school is gaining popularity, because digital technologies are beginning to play a critical role in people's daily lives.
Even the 70-year-old mayor of New York, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, recently enrolled in Javascript courses.
A person who can read and write is able to compose a text of any form and purpose: from a small note to a sonnet and a novel (with sufficiently developed skills). A person who knows the basics of programming also discovers completely new possibilities in life: he can automate routine tasks and use powerful tools for information processing. And most importantly, the potential of information technology is so great that only learning how to program all people is able to reveal it in earnest.
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For example, the founder of the startup Developer Bootcamp is confident that programming will become a new literacy rate in 20-30 years. Everyone should be able to encode, because man / car and car / man communications will become as common as man / man. Those who cannot program will find themselves in the same position as those who cannot read and write 200 years ago. They had to ask others to read a note or write a letter, because they themselves did not know how. Exactly the same situation now with programming, he says .
The movement for universal knowledge programming intensified at the end of 2011, when the online project Codecademy started working, providing free online programming courses for everyone, and their mission is also based on the thesis that every person in the world should know at least a simple scripted PL .
However, not all programmers perceive the idea of a “new standard of literacy”. For example, recently a great resonance was caused by the article “ Please do not learn programming! ”From renowned developer Jeff Atwood, founder of StackOverflow.com.
He mocks those who learn only basic programming skills. For example, above the mayor of New York, who in 2012 also enrolled in Codecademy courses. According to Atwood, at the final exam, Mayor Bloomberg will be able to write something like this:
10 PRINT "I AM MAYOR"
20 GOTO 10Java-: , ?
«/» «/», , .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/144540/
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