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Re: Coding is the next level of literacy, says Apple software boss

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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/
>>
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>
>> 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.”
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>    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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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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