{"id":189,"date":"2014-02-01T15:16:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T15:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/computer-science-a-foreign-language-not\/"},"modified":"2014-02-01T15:16:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T15:16:24","slug":"computer-science-a-foreign-language-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/computer-science-a-foreign-language-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Science a Foreign Language? NOT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several states are looking at proposals that allow Computer Science to be substituted for a foreign language.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve looked at this from several points of view.<\/p>\n<p>First, as a curriculum designer, and I have looked at both the Language TEKS and the Computer Science TEKS and I see that the share very few objectives.<\/p>\n<p>Second, as a former foreign language student and as a computer scientist.  I took 4 years of Latin in high school, my choice.  I thought it would be cool to be able to read some of my favorite literature in their original language.  It was.  I also majored in computer science.  Learning 4 years of Latin did not help my ability to write software.  While it makes it easier for me to spell, and I understand the rules of language better.<\/p>\n<p>I have challenged advocates of this proposal and they support it to increase the enrollment in their classes, as students don&#8217;t want to take a foreign language.  Personally I find this offensive that anyone would want to take away from someone else&#8217;s program to promote theirs.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect that most students take a language in order to read a book in its original language, but most students don&#8217;t take 4 years of a language, they only take one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several states are looking at proposals that allow Computer Science to be substituted for a foreign language. I&#8217;ve looked at this from several points of view. First, as a curriculum designer, and I have looked at both the Language TEKS and the Computer Science TEKS and I see that the share very few objectives. Second, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}