![]() I think we can teach most people some coding. But is that true? And even if it is can we make everyone an expert? Probably not anymore than we can teach everyone to write well enough to create the next Great American Novel. A lot of people on the “we need more people learning computer science” movement like to say that everyone can learn to code. I think the truth is somewhere on the continuum between those extremes. A political appointee in the UK caused a stir when she claimed that teachers could learn how to educate students in computer programming “in a day.” Well that is crazy but is the other end, brain surgery, any less crazy? Quite a range there. ![]() My old boss is not alone in thinking coding is easy though. Hal Berenson MaIs programming on a par with brain surgery? Or it is more like one boss I had said “programming is easy and I could teach any money to program.” Hal, who worked for the same boss at one time, pointed out that that company went out of business not long after that was said. Can you teach brain surgery to the masses? Programming is on par with brain surgery. I recently tweeted a link to a post by Garth Flint titled Teaching programming is not getting easier and had an interesting response on This is a discussion way beyond Twitter. ![]() One never knows where something is going to go on Twitter.
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