Persuasive Essay On Coding In Schools
Coding is a unique ability that most people don't have, in fact out of the 7.5 billion people in the world there are only 18.5 million people in the world that know how to code, that's only 0.25% of the population. To me, 0.25% is not that much, but that begs the question, should school's consider to try to raise that number? first I want to say that there is an immense difference between coding, white hat hacking, and black hat hacking. The differences between these three is that coding is a programmer with limited experience who writes simple programs like on scratch, however, a coder can also be referred to a very experienced programmer like Dennis Ritchie or Linus Torvalds, a black hat hacker is a person with computer knowledge and is trying
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to breach, or bypass internet security, and a white hat hacker is a computer security specialist who is required by the law to breaks into protected systems and networks to test and assess their security, examples of white hat hackers are Steve Wozniak and Kevin Mitnick.
Now with that out of the way, let me explain why I think that kids should be taught coding in their schools.
Being a coder myself, I think that coding is very entertaining, you don't feel stressed, you feel creative, and much more beneficial feelings. Laurence Bradford at www.skillcrush.com says " I Have Freedom to Make My Own Schedule." And she says after that "In the past, even when I was teaching in Thailand, I had to be at X place at X time – Monday thru Friday. Nowadays, I love having the option to take a day off mid-week, but then make up for it on a Saturday." Not enough for you? Kyle Pearce at www.diygenius.com says "I like to think of coding as applied math and sciences because it teaches us an iterative approach to solving problems and testing out our ideas." And to back Kyle up, he is right, I agree and www.techwalla.com states that coding has math which includes, Basic Programming Math which has to do with the hexadecimal number system, addition, subtraction, multiplying, division, and algebra. There is also Advanced Programming Math which has to do with computer science in algebra, statistics, calculus I and calculus II. This could help your child improve in math and computer science dramatically if we were to teach coding in
school.
to breach, or bypass internet security, and a white hat hacker is a computer security specialist who is required by the law to breaks into protected systems and networks to test and assess their security, examples of white hat hackers are Steve Wozniak and Kevin Mitnick.
Now with that out of the way, let me explain why I think that kids should be taught coding in their schools.
Being a coder myself, I think that coding is very entertaining, you don't feel stressed, you feel creative, and much more beneficial feelings. Laurence Bradford at www.skillcrush.com says " I Have Freedom to Make My Own Schedule." And she says after that "In the past, even when I was teaching in Thailand, I had to be at X place at X time – Monday thru Friday. Nowadays, I love having the option to take a day off mid-week, but then make up for it on a Saturday." Not enough for you? Kyle Pearce at www.diygenius.com says "I like to think of coding as applied math and sciences because it teaches us an iterative approach to solving problems and testing out our ideas." And to back Kyle up, he is right, I agree and www.techwalla.com states that coding has math which includes, Basic Programming Math which has to do with the hexadecimal number system, addition, subtraction, multiplying, division, and algebra. There is also Advanced Programming Math which has to do with computer science in algebra, statistics, calculus I and calculus II. This could help your child improve in math and computer science dramatically if we were to teach coding in
school.