Why Don't We Make Learning A Computer Language A Requirement In High School?

Brad Feld:

I spent this weekend at LindzonPalooza. Once a year Howard Lindzon gets together a bunch of his friends at the intersection of financing, tech, media, and entrepreneurship, we descend on The Del in Coronada, and have an awesome 48 hours together. Many interesting and stimulating things were said, but one I remember was from Peter Pham over dinner. It was a simple line, "why do we teach languages in junior high and high school but not a computer language?" that had profound meaning to me.

When I was in high school, I had to take two years of a foreign language. I had three choices - French, Spanish, or German. I didn't really want to learn any of them so I opted for French. I hated it - rote memorization and endless tedious classes where I didn't really understand anything. Fortunately I liked my teacher for the first two years and I did fine academically (I got an A) and ended up taking a third year of French.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 19, 2012 1:10 AM
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