Children don’t need to learn how to code

Mar 4, 2024

There is a common understanding that a computer science bachelor is fundamentally focused on learning how to write code. It is not. The core of computer science is problem solving. Some subjects use code as a tool to solve those problems, others may use pen and paper.

Having a language that is human and is a programming language is not the future, it is the present. There are millions out there using it.

AI is nowhere near replacing humans in being, and has only proven to augment their capabilities, and maybe, replacing some of their very specific tasks reliably.

Your kids should still learn problem solving. Coding and computer science is a great framework to do so, but there are others out there. What’s important is not that they know Javascript or Python, but that they know how to think out of the box, they learn how to be critical, they understand first principles, they are able to question their surroundings.

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