nixCraft 🐧Feb 28, 2024
If anyone, especially the Nvidia CEO, tells you not to teach your kids maths, science, coding, art, or personal finance. Ignore him and do the opposite of what he is saying. Teach your kids the skills they need to thrive. Embrace education for all kids. By encouraging critical thinking and a love of learning, you give your kids powerful tools to shape their futures, which also helps build strong nations.
Show threadMark W. AlexanderFeb 28, 2024

@nixCraft

All of that except coding. If my kids had learned coding, they'd have learned COBOL and FORTRAN.

I assure you, whatever hot language they learn today will NOT be useful when they go to work.

Given all the other skills, coding is literally just learning other specialized languages to express the other fields and there *will* be better ones.

Show threadFish Id Wardrobe ⁂Feb 28, 2024
@AnonymooseGuy @nixCraft True, but learning *how to code* is a transferrable skill.
Show threadMark W. Alexander

@fishidwardrobe @nixCraft

That's only true if you learn to code in vi.

*ducks and runs*

Feb 28, 2024 at 8:05pmWeb
Show threadFish Id Wardrobe ⁂Feb 28, 2024
@AnonymooseGuy @nixCraft LOL, but no. Not only is the skill of breaking down things into simple sequences of objective statements something that applies to all programming languages -- it's transferrable to other things, too.