> From: Brian <http://www.eecs..edu/~b> > Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:43:19 -0800 > > ?It starts innocuously,? Harris writes, ?but by algebra they?re calculating > parabolas using the trajectory of an American sniper?s bullet in North Korea.? > > Now that's scary. > > I totally agree with the article about the point it makes in passing, that the > current big push to teach "coding" is meant to help businesses, not to help the > students. My first-ever tweet, from an Obama ceremony of programming education > at the White House, was about this. > > That table of contents looks mostly really interesting. If I end up spending > even more of my day online to read The Nation, I'm going to be annoyed... I > already spend way too much time on the NYT!