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Devteach - (Getting into Canada)
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28/04/2004 12:55:05
 
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Visual FoxPro
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>it is true. We try to prepere children for their future job.
>I have possibility to compare knowledge of people who start program in 4-5 class, 8-9 class and as a student.
>For first one programing is a nature(game,) for other become a job.
>It is more ease to learn programming or language when you are young, then when you are 20 years old.
>Competition force us, russians, other Europian country to involve children in job training during their secondary study. When child become 18 years old he/she should be able to work. Most of our students in universities work.

I think you address two different points here, so let me respond to them separately.

1) Job training vs. education--This is a fundamental difference between Bulgaria and the US. I imagine it has to do with economic circumstances. In the US, large numbers of families can afford for children not to work (or to work only a few hours a week or only during school vacations) until they're out of school entirely. We have strict laws limiting how much high school students can work.

It's my sense that as a society grows economically, it becomes more feasible for students to focus on a broad education rather than job training.

2) Age of learning to program--I see nothing wrong with teaching children something about programming. There are valuable skills for all in learning the kind of methodical thinking needed to get a program working. That said, most of the software developers I know learned programming as adults or as college students and seem to do well with it.

Tamar
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