We received the following request from Dr. Shibata.

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Currently, my junior high school children are lazy at home.

I made them read the article saying "Programming is essential in the future" that appeared in today's morning newspaper article, and they said, "somehow interesting?"

By the way, they are not able to explain the meaning of the words "programming language" "OS" "editor" "file" "folder". (I will give the outlines to them in the future.)

My skill is about to copy and paste a Excel macro from the web and execute it.

For exampe, I think that I am "a rolling villager who don't know where the evtrace of a pyramid before excavation"

Therefore, "I would like you to write Mr. Ebata's memorandum with the title (contents) of "A book that a IT engineer introductory to junior high school students and high school students( or startup method) .

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I'm one of the people who feels a tremendous sense of crisis in the "programming education" of teenagers.

For more details, please read the following.

It means, human beings are not compatible with mathematics perhaps.

"I will never do programming for my life"

I can already see the "big failure" of programming education in the compulsory education process at this stage, even if not seen by others.

In the first place, I think that "fun programming" is contradictory as "white gray".

For both human beings and computers, "programming languages" are only tools to mutually understand at the last minute

"Why does Ebata try to make a program that nobody will use whenever he release a new column?"

So, why do not we focus on "spreadsheet education"?

First of all, they should not come up with the power to "go to the PC."

If they can make full use of "Excel", I believe that we make no never mind of programming.

"getting over their dislike of numbers (not math)"

(5) We strongly encourage employment of Tomoichi Ebata as a teacher at the site of formulation, planning, and programming education of (1) to (4) above.

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I think it is impossible for a teenager to create a programming environment as much as "absolutely absolute power".

If I teach a program that compiles and only displays "Hello World" to them, I am afraid that "the child's future as a programmer is over".

I don't think there are any children who can endure that "desperate boringness".

So my claim is

"If you want to teach teenagers programming, don't let them program"

is the word for it.

(Continuation from yesterday)