![]() ![]() When I first began living in a foreign country, I had serious trouble decoding information. Sometimes, we use codes to simplify, to facilitate efficient decoding and sometimes we add complexity to make communication more stable and secure. We encode information in order to communicate it. At its core, code is a matter of information and complexity. Thinking about code as a set of logical commands is actually a fairly new phenomenon. Preparing for the future will take much more than writing command lines. In a recent piece in Newsweek, he writes that by the time today’s pre-teens reach the job market, they “will find that coding skills are about as valuable as cursive handwriting.” To many tech denizens, that’s apostasy, but he has a point. Yet long tech columnist Kevin Maney disagrees. ![]() Many of today’s business and political leaders stress that coding has become an essential skill for the digital age and there’s been an avalanche of new services-from classes and training programs to free online resources like Code Academy and -to meet the demand. My programming skills are pretty basic, but I like the idea of giving my child a head start. Some months ago, I downloaded the Kodable app for my 4 year-old, which boasts that it can teach toddlers how to code before they can read.
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