However, among these parents who attach importance to education investment, only a few will choose to let their children learn children's programming courses. Because most people will have such doubts: How much influence does programming have on children's future? Is it worth studying now?
Today, Bian Xiao will help you solve this problem.
0 1? Learn to program thinking and solve problems.
The most important thing to learn programming is to learn programming thinking, because programming thinking can give children the ability to solve problems.
So, what is programming thinking?
The first is "computational thinking", which can never be simply understood as "thinking for programming".
Computational thinking is a thinking process of "understanding problems-finding paths", which consists of four steps: decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction and algorithm.
For example: visit Mount Tai, a scenic spot.
Did you get a look at him? Through these four steps, firstly, a complex problem is disassembled into a series of easy-to-solve small problems, and each small problem is considered separately to find a solution; Then, focus on several important nodes and ignore small details to form a solution. Finally, design steps, implement-solve problems.
Therefore, "programming thinking" is not a programming skill, but an efficient way of thinking to solve problems.
People with programming thinking will not be intimidated by seemingly arduous difficulties. They know and believe that problems can be solved, and they will have more courage, perseverance and self-confidence to face the challenges of life.
The training and strengthening of this kind of thinking ability will also benefit children in their future study and work!
At the same time, according to educational cognition, children will begin to form abstract logical thinking around the age of 7, and the whole age of 7- 12 is the best period for the formation of abstract logical thinking.
Therefore, the best time to learn programming is in primary school. Helping children master a lifelong skill is the right way to invest when their schoolwork burden is not heavy and their logical thinking is fast.
02? Help children improve their literacy.
The help of children's programming to culture class is more reflected in: learning programming can improve children's computing ability and logical thinking ability, help children solve a series of problems such as poor grades and inattention in class, and thus help children improve their performance in culture class.
★ Mathematics: There is a close relationship between programming and mathematics. For children with rich mathematical foundation, it can help them better understand programming logic, and also help them understand mathematical abstract concepts.
For example: the process of writing code will use binary; In the process of programming, you will come into contact with some basic mathematical functions; Learning graphic programming involves the knowledge of plane geometry. There is a lot of mathematics content in it, which will appear in specific problems and task scenarios, and deepen children's understanding and application of mathematics knowledge to a certain extent.
★ Language: When starting a programming project, children will list the order of different functions they need accurately and orderly by observing, comparing, analyzing, synthesizing, abstracting, summarizing, judging and reasoning things, and then gradually write programs according to functional requirements.
Therefore, the logical thinking of programming practice can help children develop the language organization ability needed for writing invisibly, so that they can sort out the writing framework in a planned way, subdivide the theme of the article, choose the arguments needed for the article, and write their own opinions in a convincing way.
English: Learning programming can improve memory and comprehension, especially for children who have difficulty remembering words. In addition, some professional English words will be encountered in the process of programming learning, which, on the other hand, can also expand your vocabulary to some extent.
03? Help children take shortcuts to school.
In recent years, programming has become a popular enrollment project for science and engineering students in many developed cities, such as Beijing and Nanjing.
The following is the enrollment brochure for science and technology specialty students issued by the High School Attached to the National People's Congress in official website on April 30, 2009, which clearly stipulates one of the registration conditions: having outstanding expertise in the Informatics Olympic Competition.
Students with programming competitions will have certain advantages when enrolling students in such prestigious schools.
Moreover, in addition to primary and secondary schools, various ministries and commissions have already issued a number of policies related to artificial intelligence and programming, encouraging and supporting schools to incorporate information technology (including programming) into their daily courses and even into the subjects selected for the college entrance examination.
20 17 Zhejiang New College Entrance Examination explicitly included information technology (including programming) in the college entrance examination subjects. Not only that, Beijing, Shandong and other major education provinces are also preparing to follow suit.
In addition, many children participated in the Informatics Olympic Competition. They all began to learn programming at an early age, and laid a solid foundation, so that they could achieve excellent results in the competition, and thus get walks or dropped points in top universities in China, such as Peking University, Tsinghua, Fudan University and Zhejiang University.
Our parents are familiar with the five major subject competitions in middle schools, namely, mathematics, physics, informatics, chemistry and biology. Among them, mathematics and physics are well-known, but there are also many children studying, and the competition is great.
The Informatics Olympic Games is unfamiliar to parents in most provinces, which leads to a lack of understanding and is easily ignored by students and parents. The number of participants in the five disciplines is less than that in other disciplines, and the competitive pressure is relatively small.
▲20 18 Statistics on the number of people walking in various subjects in Tsinghua.
Therefore, it must be a very good choice to know programming and learn programming in advance if you want to get today's self-recruitment quota, drop points and even walk through the information Olympics.
04? Increase children's future competitiveness
The era of artificial intelligence has arrived, and many jobs accumulated by labor and experience are gradually being replaced by machines.
In order to cope with the robot competition, the requirements for people's quality and comprehensive ability are getting higher and higher in the future, and the market demand for programming talents is also increasing year by year.
Big data shows that in 20 18, the total annual salary of all programming-related skills such as AI, algorithm and intelligent recognition reached1500 million yuan, 5.8 times higher than that in 20 17.
This year, due to the rapid development of 5G and the scarcity of talents in the technology industry, the salary of talents in the programming field has risen, and it has become the norm for major companies to grab people.
According to the statistics of the school recruitment salary website, the monthly salary of 20 19 programming positions is above 1 10,000.
In addition, 5G will help traditional industries achieve automation, informationization and intelligence, and in the field of intelligent manufacturing, promote the upgrading of traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing. In addition, the car networking industry, wireless medical and smart cities are also important areas under the 5G format.
This means that programming jobs are no longer the demand of the technology industry, and the traditional financial industry, medical industry and manufacturing industry are also attracting programming talents.
According to IHSMarkit's forecast, by 2030, the global 5G value chain will bring about 2.6 trillion US dollars of direct economic output (equivalent to the GDP of India, the seventh largest economy) and provide15.23 million jobs.
It is conceivable that in five years, 10 years, or even 20 years, programming-related occupations will become more and more common, and the market demand for programming talents will be huge.
If your child has programming skills, he can be fearless even in the face of fierce competition in the employment environment.