En Decoding the Value of Computer Science un (otro) artículo interesante sobre el tema.

Tiene que ver con que cada vez menos centros (para niños, escuelas e institutos) en EEUU imparten clases relacionadas con estos temas.

El autor comenta al principio su propia experiencia:

Programar, según él, contribuyó a aprender lógica, el valor de la brevedad y la atención por los detalles.

So I took to programming, first in Basic and then Pascal. Coding taught me the shape of logic, the value of brevity, and the attention to detail that debugging requires.

Habla sobre la bajada de estudiantes de informática (una tendencia mundial,
ya lo hemos comentado otras veces):

According to the Computing Research Association, the annual number of bachelor's degrees awarded in computer science and computer engineering dropped 12 percent in 2009. When Zuckerberg started Facebook, in 2004, universities awarded over 20,000 computer degrees. The total fell below 10,000 last year.

Compara la programación con la escritura (la escritura es codifcar, construir un programa que se ejecuta en el sistema operativo humano de la narrativa):

Writing, in other words, is just coding by a different name. It's like constructing a program that runs in the universal human operating system of narrative, because, as Joan Didion once said, we tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Y sigue:

They discovered the virtue of understanding the instructions that lie at the heart of things, of realizing the danger of misplaced semicolons, of learning to labor until what you have built is good enough to do what it is supposed to do.

I left computer science when I was 17 years old. Thankfully, it never left me.

Etiquetas: informática, niños, aprendizaje, escritura, rigor, lógica, futuro, estudiantes

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