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You honestly think programming will become such a vital skill in everyone's job that it'll be taught along side reading and math to young children?

Even at the high school level students are forced to learn algebra and calculus but they don't really learn it. They memorize a few formula and apply them on tests but how many people can even take a simple derivative a few years after leaving school? Just cause someone took high school calc doesn't mean they're challenging for the jobs of mathematicians.



> You honestly think programming will become such a vital skill in everyone's job that it'll be taught along side reading and math to young children?

I'm in the UK, and yes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23222068

> They memorize a few formula and apply them on tests but how many people can even take a simple derivative a few years after leaving school?

You're right about this. But the percentage of people that will learn will remain the same, the quantity of the population that were taught will increase. It will have an effect.


It's worse than that. Most people don't take calculus in the US...




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