[dustingetz]

> If you don't know how to program, you filter out all parts of the world that involve programming. You miss the loops and divide-and-conquers of everyday life.

decomposing large problems into smaller ones is math. we all took 10 years of math in high school and college.

a broad education is good. coding, in particular, may or may not be relevant, but certainly more and more schools include a year or two of programming in high school or college. that's probably plenty. no need to get all worked up about this.

[jiggy2011]

The problem is that most people don't really learn much math at school. Most people will learn to add , subtract and do multiplication, some will even cram their brains with equations to pass a math exam and then promptly forget it all afterwards.

Programming provides a practical hands on may to introduce logical problem solving. It's something that could be used to supplement Math class.

I find it much easier to understand Mathematical stuff if I have written a program that implements it.

[rohit89]

You have practical experiments in physics and chemistry but most people don't seem to remember much of them either.