yep they'll do all this and then when you're GCSE and A-Level age they'll teach you what a keyboard does and that's it
[QUOTE=Cabbage;45860467]yep they'll do all this and then when you're GCSE and A-Level age they'll teach you what a keyboard does and that's it[/QUOTE]
If you're lucky you might even get to spend ten minutes actually doing your work rather than writing it up!
You people are skeptical but I'm jealous, I've always wanted to learn code but I'm lazy as fuck so I never did. Now I find out that the year below me got to do code for GCSE and now primary school level kids learn it too.
[QUOTE=Rossy167;45862010]You people are skeptical but I'm jealous, I've always wanted to learn code but I'm lazy as fuck so I never did. Now I find out that the year below me got to do code for GCSE and now primary school level kids learn it too.[/QUOTE]
You're overestimating this. They're not going to learn how to code, they're going to fuck around in Scratch or even that godawful Alice thing for a few lessons. I'm thinking that probably because they did a very similar initiative at my school
I dont like how people refer to programming as "coding". Teaching kids to code, to learn to code, the word seems to be used by people who don't really know what programming is.
[QUOTE=Shirky;45863478]I dont like how people refer to programming as "coding". Teaching kids to code, to learn to code, the word seems to be used by people who don't really know what programming is.[/QUOTE]
I've always thought there was a distinct difference being that coding was something done in a school environment where nothing comes out of it (ie pissing about in Scratch) whereas programming is actually making something with intention to use it be it a mod for a game or some app in java or something.
At least that's how I separate the two in my mind.
[QUOTE=Rossy167;45864324]I've always thought there was a distinct difference being that coding was something done in a school environment where nothing comes out of it (ie pissing about in Scratch) whereas programming is actually making something with intention to use it be it a mod for a game or some app in java or something.
At least that's how I separate the two in my mind.[/QUOTE]
This is pretty much what I thought. Could someone explain to me the differences between coding and programming? I've just thought coding was small scripts or whatever and programming was for larger projects.
I don't think there's a specified difference between coding and programming, but they probably use coding because "coding" sounds less intimidating than "programming"
[QUOTE=All0utWar;45864433]This is pretty much what I thought. Could someone explain to me the differences between coding and programming? I've just thought coding was small scripts or whatever and programming was for larger projects.[/QUOTE]
I always thought coding was slang/the actual word coding used incorrectly for programming
I'd love to actually help out with the computer science oriented IT curriculum they are aiming for. They're gonna need a whole new breed of teachers who actually understand this shit for it to work, and that's where the overwhelming number of comp sci graduates come in handy really.
I mean, I'm currently doing a masters, so I'd probably be turned down by schools for being overqualified or whatever, and I'd still have the PGCE to complete before I'm allowed to teach. But apparently I'm not too bad at explaining programming concepts to fucking idiots, so teaching kids would certainly be a step up.
[QUOTE=All0utWar;45864433]This is pretty much what I thought. Could someone explain to me the differences between coding and programming? I've just thought coding was small scripts or whatever and programming was for larger projects.[/QUOTE]
no
coding is the actual process of writing source code
programming, or "software development" has more [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_process]phases[/URL] to it than just coding like debugging and all that jazz
altho honestly no one sane cares whether you say programming or coding because we all know what it means anyway