> Just as students were taught to systematically memorize and copy in their other classes, they need to be given a systematic formula by which to approach problem-solving.
When I read that, I wondered what Maria Montessori would think. The line opens with the notion of systematic memorization - copy and paste; my sense is that the lecture (memorize) and test approach to factory education is coming to be regarded as a dinosaur; the meteor has landed; we are seeing a renaissance in thinking about the education process.
I once got in trouble with the teacher's union steward at my kids' school when I said "there is no such thing as teaching, only learning and learning facilitation". The memorize and copy approach came to be known as the "just in case" epistemology. Nancy Glock Grueneich said that the proper epistemology is "just for me".
From that, while I'm not criticizing the linked piece- in fact, I'm thrilled that CS is being taught in high school - my take is that there might be a way to facilitate personal discovery of the "systematic formula" being given.