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vjpgo8 karma

I am a software engineer I have kids in school now. They had access to learning software for all subjects including programming like stuff. They are good students and have been in honors classes. However, they have been basically driven from math by teaching styles and methods used in US schools. My kids have ability to excel in Math (and computer Science), BUT both have had teachers so strict and harsh in Math teaching that the are already thinking they do not want to pursue careers in Math related fields (Sad).

I see this, and the fact that there are many other potential career options, as a reason for drop in kids pursuing Computer Science as College path. Are you (Code.org) doing anything to change this? If not, how can you really raise your percentages of CS students in US?

vjpgo5 karma

There are opportunities, I live in San Diego and there are more software / IT jobs here than people to fill them. My small company alone has 5+ software type jobs and many other technically related. That said right now, without a degree in CS or related, you will not get paid more that you could get in many other jobs. Can we change that?

vjpgo3 karma

Right, but don't those 4 jobs need CS degrees? How do we get kids to go that way? How can we change mind set in USA that Math (and coding) are too hard unless you are really smart?

vjpgo2 karma

I did sign up at http://code.org/help and would like to help get kids more interested in CS, but not sure if just teaching them to code will really be solution to real education problems in US. How can we change the way we teach kids so that even want to pursue these careers? I hope this is part of the plan too.

vjpgo2 karma

<<People all know US is behind in math/science,>> If we do not fix this first, how can we get kids interested in CS?