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  Coding is the next level of literacy, says Apple software boss Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 11:55 -0600
    Re: Coding is the next level of literacy, says Apple software boss jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-03-11 19:16 +0000
    Re: Coding is the next level of literacy, says Apple software boss Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-03-11 14:11 -0600
    Re: Coding is the next level of literacy, says Apple software boss Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-03-11 13:29 -0800

#561596 — Coding is the next level of literacy, says Apple software boss

Coding is the next level of literacy, says Apple software boss
> http://www.cultofmac.com/400773/coding-is-the-next-level-of-literacy-say-apple-software-boss/


> Teaching your kids how to code is pretty much as important as
> teaching them to write, according to Apple’s senior VP of Software
> Engineering, Craig Federighi, in an interview promoting the company’s
> Hour of Code project.
>
> Apple is turning all of its retail locations into coding centers for
> kids this week. The classes will offer hands-on instructions into the
> basics of coding that Federighi says will hopefully set of a spark
> with the young learners.
>
> “These devices are so much a part of our lives, we have a computer in
> some form wherever we go, that the ability to create in that medium
> is as fundamental as the ability to write,” Federighi told the BBC in
> an interview. “That first moment of realizing I could enter some
> commands in a computer and make it do something was a revelation.”


   We, who worked as scientist, pretty much had to do our own coding. I
   admire Apple for recognizing that our kids and grandkids need to learn
   to code.

   I mostly code via Unix shell scripting these days.


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#561647

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Coding is the next level of literacy, says Apple software boss
>> http://www.cultofmac.com/400773/coding-is-the-next-level-of-literacy-say-apple-software-boss/
> 
> 
>> Teaching your kids how to code is pretty much as important as
>> teaching them to write, according to Apple?s senior VP of Software

Utter nonsense.

Teaching the average kid how to weld would be a lot more usefull.


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Jim Pennino

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#561662

On 3/11/2016 11:55 AM, Sam Wormley wrote:
> Coding is the next level of literacy, says Apple software boss
>> http://www.cultofmac.com/400773/coding-is-the-next-level-of-literacy-say-apple-software-boss/
>>
>
>
>> Teaching your kids how to code is pretty much as important as
>> teaching them to write, according to Apple’s senior VP of Software
>> Engineering, Craig Federighi, in an interview promoting the company’s
>> Hour of Code project.
>>
>> Apple is turning all of its retail locations into coding centers for
>> kids this week. The classes will offer hands-on instructions into the
>> basics of coding that Federighi says will hopefully set of a spark
>> with the young learners.
>>
>> “These devices are so much a part of our lives, we have a computer in
>> some form wherever we go, that the ability to create in that medium
>> is as fundamental as the ability to write,” Federighi told the BBC in
>> an interview. “That first moment of realizing I could enter some
>> commands in a computer and make it do something was a revelation.”
>
>
>    We, who worked as scientist, pretty much had to do our own coding. I
>    admire Apple for recognizing that our kids and grandkids need to learn
>    to code.
>
>    I mostly code via Unix shell scripting these days.
>
>

bet apple is teaching them a language that depends upon Apple platform


SW keeps changing, you have to learn a new language about every 2 to 3 
years.

also PHP got extended, rewritten, +new features etc.

How many languages are in use today ?


How many languages did you know ?



Anyone know FORTH ?

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#561687

On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 9:55:35 AM UTC-8, Sam Wormley wrote:
> Coding is the next level of literacy, says Apple software boss
> > http://www.cultofmac.com/400773/coding-is-the-next-level-of-literacy-say-apple-software-boss/
> 
> 
> > Teaching your kids how to code is pretty much as important as
> > teaching them to write, according to Apple's senior VP of Software
> > Engineering, Craig Federighi, in an interview promoting the company's
> > Hour of Code project.
> >
> > Apple is turning all of its retail locations into coding centers for
> > kids this week. The classes will offer hands-on instructions into the
> > basics of coding that Federighi says will hopefully set of a spark
> > with the young learners.
> >
> > "These devices are so much a part of our lives, we have a computer in
> > some form wherever we go, that the ability to create in that medium
> > is as fundamental as the ability to write," Federighi told the BBC in
> > an interview. "That first moment of realizing I could enter some
> > commands in a computer and make it do something was a revelation."
> 
> 
>    We, who worked as scientist, pretty much had to do our own coding. I
>    admire Apple for recognizing that our kids and grandkids need to learn
>    to code.
> 
>    I mostly code via Unix shell scripting these days.
> 


I it has finally dawned on me that the emphasis on teaching everyone to use the higher level computer languages is probably an intentional ploy to keep individuals from learning to control all the features of the machines as are accessible using the machine languages of the computers.  That is how hackers can do as they please with your computer!

Double-A

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