> This is something that the education system could fix. I believe that we should be teaching kids, starting in elementary school, things like binary and boolean logic, simple circuits with gates, etc. and then move up to memory, instructions, basic CPUs. Everyone should be exposed to some Asm programming. Higher-level langauges, OOP, etc. can be left to those who choose to go into computing as a career, but I think that due to the massive reliance that society has on computers and the influence they have on our lives, everyone should at least have a fundamental understanding of how these machines work.
I think this is backwards -- the high level understanding needs to be more universal, and the low-level left for those who seek to make a career out of it (though I think the high-level part that needs to be universal is even higher level than actual programming and is more basic system analysis, though combining it with some programming, including basic DB implementation, would be a good way to make it concrete.)
I think this is backwards -- the high level understanding needs to be more universal, and the low-level left for those who seek to make a career out of it (though I think the high-level part that needs to be universal is even higher level than actual programming and is more basic system analysis, though combining it with some programming, including basic DB implementation, would be a good way to make it concrete.)