Tech’s push to teach coding isn’t about kids’ success – it’s about cutting wages | Technology | The Guardian

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/coding-education-teaching-silicon-valley-wages

Oh, really? Who would have thought that!

Functional Programming in Haskell: Supercharge Your Coding

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Today I will start another programming course at FutureLearn. The course is named “Functional Programming in Haskell: Supercharge Your Coding” and it looks interesting. Here is a short description of the course:

“On this introductory course, you will discover the power, elegance and simplicity of functional programming in Haskell. By the end, you will be able to:
characterise the differences between imperative and functional programming paradigms;
implement small-scale functional programs in elementary Haskell;
apply standard combinators for operating on lists;
create new algebraic data types and use recursion to define functions that traverse recursive types; and reason in a mathematical manner about data types, functions, recursion and similar functional constructs.”

You can read more about the course here: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/functional-programming-haskell/

#FLhaskell

Coding is not fun

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Very interesting article on Quartz about coding in general.

Coding is not “fun,” it’s technically and ethically complex
https://qz.com/987170/coding-is-not-fun-its-technically-and-ethically-complex/

“[…] by expanding the labor pool, keeps industry ticking over and wages under control.” Shhh! Nobody needs to hear this.