Make coding mandatory at highschool

[Defaulter]

And pre school as well, OR at least make it an option early on in education.

Why? look at computors now, now look ahead 20 years.

- Industry sectors will be dominated by computor use

- Cyber warfare will have been fully developed and refined

- The information/communications sector will grow to rival or surpass most others

- Corporate espionage will grow in the cyber world

- Jobs in engineering (automotive AND aerospace) will accomodate more computor systems

They are making small steps towrds this already.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16515275

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DISCLAIMER: "why should EVERYONE have to learn this??" i want nothing more then to give everyone at least the bare basics of knowledge, computors are being intergrated into everyday life at an increasingly astonishing speed.

"not everyone wants the bare basics" not everyone wants to learn maths, english, chemistry. But still the basics are taught to us.

The earth is heading into a golden age of information and communication (enlightenment if you will, though that sounds to cliche to me)

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Thoughts?

- DE

[Tek2]

Well coding could be left to volentary classes, but more computer stuff would be nice.

[Daniella]

No.

[PapaKhan]

No. If everyone knew how to code, a lot of people's jobs would be eliminated, thus leaving even more people unemployed.

[Fett316]

Students these days are dumb-asses, they can't even grasp the concept of grammar or simple math and you want them to learn coding?? No.

[Stalker]

Students these days are dumb-asses, they can't even grasp the concept of grammar or simple math and you want them to learn coding?? No.

-_-

[USABxBOOYO]

Don't make it mandatory, but it should be an option.

[TheGeekZeke101]

Don't make it mandatory, but it should be an option.

Yeah, I agree.

It would be nice to take this class, as I spend half my time online looking for something to do. This would make my time atleast half worth the time.

[Fluttershy]

Don't make it mandatory, but it should be an option.

this. Health is a mandatory class for graduation, yet our school is still filled with a bunch of fat people and people that abuse drugs. mandatory coding classes=/=more coders, all it truly would do is waste a class slot that they could use for a class thatd actually pertain to the job they want.

[Falcon]

Huh, yes and no. I would say my opinion being influenced by how my dad forced me to learn HTML coding at age 11. No because, what about the people who code for a living? If people decided to do it on their own then they would loos their jobs. But you clearly state some good point of why it should be mandatory. Personally I think it should be voluntary. Also DE *computer