Coding, Learning, the Future

More and more is being written about coding/programming skills becoming part of basic literacy for upcoming generations.

Here's a recent take:

http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/castingoutnines/2012/01/14/programming-for-all/

and the same author gives some jumping-off points here:

http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/castingoutnines/2012/01/16/so-you-want-to-learn-to-program/


(hat tip to the latest Math Teachers at Play Carnival for pointing me to these 2 posts)

I'll also refer folks back to this prior Conrad Wolfram video on the subject (and many others have expressed a similar viewpoint):

http://wildaboutmath.com/2011/07/16/conrad-wolfram-on-teaching-math/