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As true as it gets....

I was considering Operation Benevento on the 14-16th August. 2 days of WW2 airsoft and probably some drinking

much of my code consists of copying and pasting stuff i dont really understand but kind of understand it enough to make it work in my code.. if that even makes sense.

needless to say, come exam time i didnt do so great lol. Im thinking of switching to networking coding isnt really my thing

Is coding some new standard thing in schools now? Cos it seems everyone's doing it

^^ state schools are making it compulsory or whatever, I did it at primary but haven't done it for years, at my school if you enjoy that kind of thing there are clubs etc, but thats it

I just study Software Development as a module at uni.

Blow me......

Trying to get kids to code in schools - ffs most kids haven't fixed a puncture in their little lives, plus gone are days when you learned how to wire a plug

but coding - yup deffo one of them things that will really enrich your skill set in life and put you in good standing for a degree in common sense

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I do Computer Science at Degree level, i never did Coding at school. But I hear Barclays is trying to "get kids into coding", also sitting Duck I sense youre being sarcastic. Coding is very very logical and mathmatical and thus it does retain a lot of "common sense skills" we are in a new age of information and computing. Being able to code is a very valuable life skill, as young people learn faster learning programming at a young age i should expect will give them a massive a...

dvantage if they choose to learn coding at a higher level. For example Romanian students start to learn code at 11. There are many Romanian students on my course who are at a much higher level than us britis simply because they started younger.

Always thought Chess was an amazing way to learn problem solving as no 2 games are the same plus playing an unorthodox opponent can throw players who always expect the text book normal openings & middle game. A bit more like life when you never can predict exactly what will happen next and have to just get on with it.

or u could learn how to code a chess game and learn all the possible logic behind chess

All I was pointing out that many younger people really do lack the basic hands on skill set that was more common years ago. Physics & coding are good but not always the same as getting ya real working class hands dirty and finding out first hand why things have gone tits up and what you can do about it. Yes Physics does study with experiments and results

But I do feel that there is still a need to understand & do some old school common sense hands on stuff that will stand people in good stead in later life was what I was trying to say

IBM's big blue did finally beat Kasparov a while back but it took them yonks to do it with a super mofo computer & yonks n yonks of programming.

unorthodox opponents are often a tricky mofo to play/compete with as you can never logically predict what the sod will do - a bit like life does to us when we are getting comfy