http://lwn.net/Articles/595596/
'In a keynote on day two of PyCon 2014 (April 12), Jessica McKellar made
an impassioned plea for the Python community to focus on the "next
generation" of Python programmers. She outlined the
programming-education problem that exists in US high schools (and likely
elsewhere in the world as well), but she also highlighted some concrete
steps the community could take to help fix it.'
This is an excellent initiative, and not just in the US. I was already
a skilled self-taught computer programmer by the end of high school, but
my teachers advised us all not to bother with the CS class even as a
source of easy grades since it wasn't valued by any tertiary
institutions or employers. I took a second (human) language instead.
It sounds like not much has changed since then.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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