The NY Times ran an article at the start of last month on what CS education is required for non-majors, Computer Science for Non-Majors. Is the knowledge of how to write a (simple) program so vital to modern work that it should rank with multiplication tables, English grammar, etc? And if so, how much knowledge and in what language(s) should this be taught?
Should someone learn the basics of javascript, so they can add to webpages? Perhaps a little python to do simple processing of data? But probably not C, as the language expresses what the computer is to do and not what the computer should do.
Edit: A strong response to this general question here.
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