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Last week, President Trump signed a memorandum for $200M per year in federal funding to advance K-12 computer science education.
A good initiative, says IEEE, but, for just this once, let's not spend this money on yet again a bunch of 3D-printers, laptops or educational robots.
Ideal CS courses should teach computational thinking: logical thinking, abstraction, algorithmic expression, problem decomposition, stepwise fault isolation, and debugging. Hardware ain't helping there. Good, qualified, teachers do. But how do you get (good) CS graduates in front of the classroom when they can easy make a multitude writing software, or doing network engineering?
Companies like Microsoft already have programs that encourage volunteer employees to spend a couple of hours each week, teaching classes at high schools. An even better idea, IEEE claims, would be if those employees spent several days at the school, teaching students, while also mentoring teachers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 07 2017, @06:53AM
The home situation is annoying. It seems that, looking at both sides of the transaction, 10% of the value of the sale is eaten up. That sucks, but if you need to move then make it happen. You may come out ahead if you move to a cheaper area. One of our sites, in Florida's Brevard county, is still affordable. The site in South Carolina is probably affordable too.
Your defense contractor experience sounds like something from the 1955 to 1995 time period. I'm seeing the bottom 3 to 5 levels of management not wearing suits full-time, with the bottom 2 levels never wearing them as far as I can see. Offices have ordinary drywall. I don't think it is dog-eat-dog... though I suppose you could cause this or imagine it. Compartmentalization is a security requirement for defense contractors, and it is less-formally used by every well-run company. Google is compartmentalized; don't imagine any random joe can muck with user accounts. Hospitals are compartmentalized.