[japhyr]

"continuing an old elective program is hard enough, let alone starting a new one"

Anything that is an elective gets pushed to the side in schools. One way to make it easier to teach programming in schools is to identify ways to reach core academic subjects through programming. One way I am doing that is allowing anyone who has had an intro programming class to do programming-related assignments in math class. For example, students can work through Project Euler challenges to earn math credit. We need flexible ways to grant credit; for example, a student who has worked through so many Project Euler problems should be able to earn a certain amount of math credit, regardless of whether it was done in school or at home.