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Many people have said "teach everyone to code!" or cheer-leaded for "learning to code!" but there hasn't been enough discussion about what a Computer Science component to a liberal arts education ought to look like.

In mathematics we have many lists and trees of what mathematicians think people ought to learn, what order it should be learned in.

Not so in computer science. We just say "learn to code" this would be like if math people said "learn to integrate functions!"

Paul Cantrell

@futurebird
Those of us who teach liberal arts CS in college talk about this •a lot• — “what a Computer Science component to a liberal arts education ought to look like” is one of the Topics Paul Won’t Shut Up About — and what I’m hearing from this thread is that we really need to be in conversation with high school teachers a lot more than we are.