In Kentucky, students may be able to learn coding instead of a foreign language.
Legislation in the Kentucky Senate would let students use computer programming courses to satisfy foreign-language requirements.
The bill passed the Senate Education Committee on a 10-1 vote last week in a move forward.
“Kentucky Coding: Foreign Language Requirement in Schools May be Satisfied with Computer Programming [1]”
This is not as crazy as it sounds. My friend Wlofie (who lives in Sweden) considered me multilingual even if I didn't think so, because I knew multiple computer languages (various assembly languages, C, Lua, some Pascal, Fortran, Perl, Lisp, Forth and Erlang, plus having written my own back in college) even if I only spoke one language (English). This, from a guy who spoke at least four languages fluently.
Sigh. Why not twenty-five years ago? I could have saved myself years of anguish attempting to learn German (really? six different forms of the article the?) had this been the case when I was in school.
Then again, I would have missed out on a teacher that sent students on daily donut runs …