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Ask HN: Why don't we teach everyone how to code? Now is a great time

1 points by biolurker1 ↗ HN
We are all in isolation with ample time on our hands. It would make me insanely happy to teach some impoverished youngster how to code. Is there a platform for this? If not why don't we make one? Khan Academy and coursera are not quite the same because there is no teacher.

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Gollapalli
I wonder how many people are self taught programmers, functionally or otherwise. Coding isn’t like reading. You aren’t locked out of learning it without a teacher. In order to learn how to code, all you need is a computer and internet access. The question I have to ask is, why should we teach people how to code? Why not let them rely on khan academy and tutorials and coursera. It’s how I learned, and how a lot of people learned, and we learned because we wanted to do something with it.

Coding isn’t like reading, not everybody needs to do it, not everybody should do it, and not everybody can do it. Coding is like math. And like math, after a while, most people just use the calculator on their phones.

edimaudo
Teaching to code sounds great but it has to be combined with critical thinking and digital literacy. Plus a lot of people don't have access to a functioning browser or laptop. To answer your question you can check out freecodecamp