With the way that foreign languages are taught in American schools (rote learning, treated like any other subject, lack of practical application), it is not really a loss to learn the ongoing process of how to be a creator v. a consumer with the ugly magic of coding.

That being said, moving from AP CS to a more structured, less-niche curriculum has its own fundamental challenges.

> “The types of learning that schools were set up for isn’t going to continue to prepare students for the world they’re entering. Knowledge is not the commodity—the commodity is being able to take these various parts of a problem and put them together in a new creative way,” Steele says.

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