"By next year coding will be mandatory in British schools. What the hell, America?"

From Pando Daily:

The British Government just put America to shame by mandating a programming curriculum in all primary and secondary schools. The UK Department of Education has been fiddling with the idea for awhile, since deciding to scrap its traditional ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) curriculum almost two years ago.

They announced the coding requirement this past summer, and just last week formalized it into the PR-extravaganza known as “Year of Code.” The program is off to rather an inauspicious start, complete with a cheesy promotional video, one of its advisors quitting and publicly condemning the program, and a terrible BBC Newsnight interview in which the Director of the program admitted she didn’t know how to code....MORE