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Teach kids to code? They're better off learning languages

10 February 2022

9:13 PM

10 February 2022

9:13 PM

A leading artificial intelligence professor has said that children should learn to write software. According to professor Michael Bronstein of Oxford University, this would make children more logical. ‘I think coding is an extension of language – it’s a way of disciplining your mind for formal, logical thinking.’ Indeed it is.

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