Teaching Coding Through Robotics

A team of Harvard engineers has come up with a fun way to get kids hooked on coding.
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[@stuartspence9921]

Looks fantastic. How about every school in Canada gets four of those, and one teacher is trained for 5 hours on how to use them, and given a handful of free lesson plans. RIGHT NOW.
Or we could research this for 15 years until it's boring and outdated and pointless. THEN implement it when a private company sells them at 20x fabrication costs. That works too...

[@joemammon6149]

coding is like mental torture! so many rooms for mistakes. everything needs to be flawless or else it wouldn't run. if you screws up, good luck figuring out what went wrong by looking at confusing error messages! debugging is no fun!

[@SpiritsBB]

Lesson of the day: Make coding appear easy to fool kids into the profession.

[@rickdeckard9810]

This is all cute and all but once the kids reach high school, and discover peer pressure, gangster rap, drugs, sex forget about coding.

[@rickdeckard9810]

and how has that been working for ya so far.

[@rickdeckard9810]

How about you learn to spell properly before you tell other countries what to do.

[@rickdeckard9810]

Try hooked on phonics they teach that in kindergarten.

[@JM-br5og]

You'll all be brown? We will rule the world?

[@9oi41]

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