Thanks for all of the thoughtful replies (and for moving to a more useful
subject line).
There is currently a big push towards teaching coding and computational
thinking to school students, but a lack of skilled teachers to actually be
able to support this, and I don't see any initiatives that wi
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:15 AM, victor rajewski wrote:
> There is currently a big push towards teaching coding and computational
> thinking to school students, but a lack of skilled teachers to actually be
> able to support this, and I don't see any initiatives that will address this
> in a long-
victor rajewski writes:
>- I personally find the current error messages quite useful, and
>they have the advantage of being machine-parseable, so that IDEs
>such as PyCharm can add value to them. However, the audience of
>this idea is not me, and probably not you. It is student
Chris Angelico writes:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:15 AM, victor rajewski wrote:
> > There is currently a big push towards teaching coding and
> > computational thinking to school students, but a lack of skilled
> > teachers to actually be able to support this, and I don't see any
> > initia
Chris Angelico writes:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:15 AM, victor rajewski wrote:
> > There is currently a big push towards teaching coding and
> > computational thinking to school students, but a lack of skilled
> > teachers to actually be able to support this, and I don't see any
> > initia
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
wrote:
> That's not exactly what he said. High school teachers are likely to
> be the product of education schools, and may be highly skilled in
> building PowerPoint presentations, and have some experience in
> programming, but not as a profes
On 5 December 2016 at 09:15, victor rajewski wrote:
>
> There is currently a big push towards teaching coding and computational
> thinking to school students, but a lack of skilled teachers to actually be
> able to support this, and I don't see any initiatives that will address this
> in a long-t
On 5 December 2016 at 12:35, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
> wrote:
>> I don't know where you live, but in both of my countries there is a
>> teacher's union to ensure that nobody without an Ed degree gets near a
>> classroom. More precisely, volunt
