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I can see the author's argument, but I think there are more fundamental issues to be dealt with. My high school, for example, discontinued Computer Science classes altogether due to low enrollment.

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Sadly this is more and more common. It's not unusual for entrants to university computer science courses to have no formal education in programming.

Fortunately there are plenty of fantastic free online resources available for independent study, and online communities brimming with experts only too happy to help :-)

This is sheer insanity to me. I just don't understand why comp sci isn't taught as a fundamental course like math. Do you have a sense why nobody was enrolling? Was it seen as too hard, too nerdy, something else?

I'd say that it's usually because the pace of change in the industry is too fast for the curriculum to keep up.

Maths courses written in the time of COBOL are still being taught. The only option is to teach the basic fundamentals, which (without application) makes for a very dull subject.

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