This flies in the face of my belief that you coders know something about life that we citizens need to know. I imagine coding to be like trying to write an instruction to a person such that that person always does what you want them to do. So, it is an act of communication in which the communicatee is always right, no matter how idiotic may be it's response. No boss ever says to a coder, "Your code was brilliant but unfortunately the machine didn't understand you."
Am I right about any of that? Nick Thompson thompnicks...@gmail.com <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of Prof David West Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 11:41 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] coding versus music For a while now there has been a huge push to teach kids how to code. Ostensibly because it enhances skills like language, logic, and math; plus, "computer literacy" is essential in a world filled with computers. A study at MIT suggests that coding skill is orthogonal to reading skill and has little, if any, influence on development of logic/math skills. An article in the Journal of Neuroscience argues that if you want to increase the "skills and brainpower" of kids you should teach them music. I came across this information peripherally and have not read the specific research reported on. I want the reports to be accurate representation of the research because it confirms long held biases against the value of "computational thinking" and computer science as a fundamental knowledge domain. dave west
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