[dizzystar]

I'm not arguing against teaching students to use their computer as a tool. I'm arguing against programming specifically...

When people that spend thousands of dollars to learn programming can't even do simple coding exercises, what makes you think a high school student struggling under the current workload will do?

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer...

[ameister14]

I don't think learning to code is fundamentally more difficult than learning Spanish. I taught myself both and they took about the same amount of time and effort.

High school students take Spanish. Why not programming?