{"id":4541,"date":"2016-02-16T12:39:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T17:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2016-02-16T12:40:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T17:40:04","slug":"should-kids-learn-coding-instead-of-foreign-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2016\/should-kids-learn-coding-instead-of-foreign-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Should kids learn coding instead of foreign languages?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading an article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Technology\/2016\/0205\/States-consider-allowing-kids-to-learn-coding-instead-of-foreign-languages\">debate in Florida<\/a>, whether to allow kids to learn code instead of a foreign language. I can offer some perspective here, since I am a coder who speaks English and French.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has been more valuable in my life: knowing French, or knowing how to code?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coding has easily been the most valuable skill for me.<\/p>\n<p>But if my second language was English (rather than French,) maybe the tables would be turned. I say this because though French is a great language, and I think the more spoken languages you know the better, French has limited use on the world\u2019s stage. English though, is the language of business \u2026 it is a must learn.<\/p>\n<p>Coding is much more like English, it too is an international language of sorts. Knowing how to code has many positive impacts on your life, even if you don\u2019t become a coder!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.studioweb.com\/2016\/02\/16\/should-kids-learn-coding-instead-of-foreign-languages\/\">Studioweb.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading an article on the debate in Florida, whether to allow kids to learn code instead of a foreign language. I can offer some perspective here, since I am a coder who speaks English and French.<\/p>\n<p>What has been more valuable in my life: knowing French, or knowing how to code?<\/p>\n<p>Coding has easily been the most valuable skill for me.<\/p>\n<p>But if my second language was English (rather than French,) maybe the tables would be turned. I say this because though French is a great language, and I think the more spoken languages you know the better, French has limited use on the world\u2019s stage. English though, is the language of business \u2026 it is a must learn.<\/p>\n<p>Coding is much more like English, it too is an international language of sorts. Knowing how to code has many positive impacts on your life, even if you don\u2019t become a coder!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.studioweb.com\/2016\/02\/16\/should-kids-learn-coding-instead-of-foreign-languages\/\">Studioweb.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4544,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions\/4544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}