My view is that the average Londoner would benefit more from having been taught the basics of programming at a young age than where to find the font choices in Word.
> My view is that the average Londoner would benefit more from having been taught the basics of programming at a young age than where to find the font choices in Word.
Yes, but what are the odds that a school that teaches where to find the font choices in Word as part of an English class wouldn't find something similarly bad to teach as "programming basics"?
Small tweaks don't make big changes. Instead, they just give said organization more opportunities to demonstrate its essential nature.
My view is the average teacher is just about competent enough to teach the average Londoner where to find the fonts on Word but would probably do more harm than good when it came to teaching the theory behind programming.
It doesn't have to be theory. Very basic python scripting could help anybody. For example, my sister wanted to reformat the naming of 500 or so photos.
Time to do this by hand: 30 soul crushing minutes
Time to write a python script to do this: 5 minutes
