It seems long overdue that the state's students have at least the option of taking some computer science classes. I cannot imagine a student from inner city Detroit majoring in computer science in college not starting impossibly behind everyone else if they haven't had some exposure to programming in high school.
But will it help the state overall? One major problem that the state of Michigan has is the top CS students from our state's universities overwhelmingly leave the state and that is not being addressed by our legislators.
I’ve been a programmer for 40 years. Many of my friends have been programming and doing R&D for decades.
We’ve been aggressively using the latest AIs as they come out, stretching their limits.
Not one of us is worried about losing anything, and are more excited than ever about the future of programming.
Less nigly work and putzing around, more architecting interesting and novel large-scale systems. We now have a team of decently competent very focused robots buzzing around cleaning up boring tasks, while we work on higher level more interesting stuff.
Today, anyone can get focussed tutoring 24/7 from an AI to quickly move them up the value stack.
But will it help the state overall? One major problem that the state of Michigan has is the top CS students from our state's universities overwhelmingly leave the state and that is not being addressed by our legislators.