peter wrote: > So we have computational thinking CT, What fears that arises to > develop into PCCT "Politically Correct CT" or the only right way to > think " CTCT Correct Thinking CT ( Guided by suitably well minded > intelligentsia just like CCCP ) especially targeting young > manipulatable minds of children in education. What consideration that > we are already ignoring reality of human thought and type with > indicators such as MBTI creating a vision of a cuddly universal world > through the distorted lens of computer hardware and APIs ( Now MBTICT > I could handle especially how it sounds ) . If an interface (API) is bad, it's like jumping through the hoops of a stupid bureaucrat and accomplishing nothing. But the bureaucrat has the force of government on his side, so people more or less conform. People don't need to be taught to conform to such constraints, they need encouragement to demand better. If an API is good, and helps solve a tricky problem, and provides abstraction, then it's not fair to call it a distorted lens. Computational thinking is not just the uncritical memorization of proprietary APIs, rather it's having some sense of when those vendors are selling you something worth having..
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