10 November 2010

Kevin Carey: "Decoding the Value of Computer Science"

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting piece by entitled "Decoding the Value of Computer Science".

The author, Kevin Carey, intended to major in Computer Science back when he entered college, but switched to a humanities major to avoid early-AM classes. While he had spent a fair amount of time programming in BASIC and Pascal up to that point, he basically stopped all programming at that time.

However, he was able to make use of his programming and logical reasoning skills in his non-CS careers: at the Indiana state-budget office and later as a writer. This article is a great read that underscores why we should have CS in the core K-12 curriculum.

(via BrainLog)

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