{"id":12522,"date":"2015-10-13T15:44:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12522"},"modified":"2015-10-13T17:04:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T21:04:31","slug":"coding-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/coding-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Coding Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Atwood<\/a> (via Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n

If someone tells you “coding is the new literacy” because “computers are everywhere today,” ask them how fuel injection works. By teaching low-level coding, I worry that we are effectively teaching our children the art of automobile repair. A valuable skill — but if automobile manufacturers and engineers are doing their jobs correctly, one that shouldn’t be much concern for average people, who happily use their cars as tools to get things done without ever needing to worry about rebuilding the transmission or even change the oil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Matt Weinberger<\/a> (via Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n

According to GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath, in conversation with Business Insider at Thursday’s GitHub Universe event<\/a>, the game plan is pretty straightforward.<\/p>

If most of the world’s developers already use and love GitHub, then the company needs to help more people become developers.<\/p>

“We’re thinking about the new developers,” Wanstrath says. “We want to lower the barriers to entry.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2015-10-13): See some good Twitter replies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alfred Thompson<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Lastly if you don’t know what it is like to be a computer science teacher, don’t understand why and how being a computer science teacher is different from any other teaching job or if you want to understand more about how complicated it is to “create” more computer science teachers you really need to read these articles.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff Atwood (via Slashdot): If someone tells you “coding is the new literacy” because “computers are everywhere today,” ask them how fuel injection works. By teaching low-level coding, I worry that we are effectively teaching our children the art of automobile repair. A valuable skill — but if automobile manufacturers and engineers are doing their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[235,524,71],"class_list":["post-12522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-education","tag-github","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12529,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522\/revisions\/12529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}