Thread: What Should be Taught in Schools?
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Unread 16 Aug 2007, 11:53   #96
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Re: What Should be Taught in Schools?
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Originally Posted by Nodrog
Teaching Excel is a perfect example of what you shouldnt be doing in schools anyway. The correct way to go down that route would be teach students how to think about both data and programming, and then learning Excel in the future wont be particularly difficult. Using an Excel as an introduction to programming principles is a terrible idea.
We don't use Excel as an introduction to programming principles, we use it as a tool to analyse data and statistics.

What would be the point in teaching students about programming, when only about 1% (if that) would choose that in their careers?
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