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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 09:01:54 JST Evan Prodromou

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   • Steve Scotten

   @splicer it's weird that we teach programming like "this is how to print out the first 50 Fibonacci numbers" instead of starting with "this is how to cross post to Tiktok and Snapchat"

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     Steve Scotten (splicer@makersocial.online)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 09:01:55 JST Steve Scotten

     @evan This raises important related questions to me because I’m a STEM/STEAM instructor inasmuch as I’m anything these days. Do we start at basic principles or do we start with something much more high level that hides layers of complexity? I tend to think demystifying technology is more important than the pragma around controlling it. But they shouldn’t be mutually exclusive, so my answer here is basically agree. Everyone should have access to learn programming (defined broadly)