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Re: Swerve questions (Languages, CAN)

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Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle View Post
I simply saw no reason for the statement to be in this thread. The majority of programming in the real world is done by technical people who do not have a CS degree. All technical professionals should learn how to program and be given the correct tooling to make them successful. Just as math courses aren't only for math majors, FRC programming isn't only for future CS researchers.
The original poster was considering changing languages. How helpful a language would be to a student who wanted to study computer science is an appropriate consideration.

Furthermore, even for people who aren't going to study computer science it would be more useful to know a general-purpose language. The world of programming is larger than the core CS topics but it's also larger than controls and data collection. If you were choosing what to teach based on what would be most useful to a majority of students you'd probably teach them a scripting language or if Excel macros.