Oct 2 2011: Hello Nawaf, There are two things to look at in your argument.First, programming is a professional skill. Just like a doctor is good at surgery programmer is good at creating computer applications. That however does not mean that every student regardless of his interests should be taught programming. Its an individual decision. Another point is that you are talking about the IT revolution. How can we guarantee the fact that introducing the programming at school level will create such a revolution. We have been taught mathematics from the childhood, inspite of that very few people choose maths as their major in high school, same is the case with the other subjects like languages history, geology etc. Also creativity in children is not explored only through the art of programming. There are other(and perhaps better) means of doing that . Whatever we are taught at school level like mathematics, logic are necessary basics to the computer applications. Once you are thorough with it you can write programs in any language, because what you then need is just the syntax. We can draw a good analogy from subject of drawing. We are all taught how to draw at the school level but not all of us can produce the Monalisa..
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