Not the codecademy approach, I can tell you that for sure. Codecademy is only good for coders who want to learn the syntax of a new language.

I got into coding with the NXT, just had a robot, started programming it, and began to love programming. From what I have seen, you don't encourage programming. If they are the programmer type, they tend to get into it themselves.

Of course, providing NXTs or something similar certainly helps, since they still need something to actually program.

what they are saying is there aren't enough pogrammer types, sorta like there aren't enough math types, so, they are (like math) going to start shoving it down your brain in schools.

I started to love programming through lua. It's a very english launguage, and a lot of non-programmers can understand simple code made in it.

@ief015 (View Post)

 Not an option, too much legacy code.

In fact, most in house code is still COBOL (I need to wash my mouth out for mentioning that putrid sack of...).

For my opinion on the "there are not enough programmer types", well, http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/please-dont-learn-to-code.html.

Although it seems fairly basic, I still find the main video strangely inspirational, which is kind of what its about.

At the end of the day, If you get somebody interested they will go out and do things on their own, doing it their own way, thats how I see it at any rate.

I don't want to be a rockstar...

@Lockheedmartin (View Post)

 Im in a programming class in highschool, so im guessing we're already in the right direction

(problem is we're learning languages like Java and Visual Basic :/)

(god I hate visual basic)

So, Yes, since im in one, I think that all schools should have programming classes :P

@ief015 (View Post)

 AMEN