MyPal’s advice to Parents and Students is summed by very well by the Stanford Professor as “The ability to program or to understand different aspects of computing systems really involves clarity of thought. If you’re going to program a computer, you need to specify a set of instructions for the computer to execute, and those have to be sufficiently clear to get your problem solved. Otherwise, you have errors. Just having the clarity of thinking to lay out instructions is an analytical skill that’s useful for everyone.”
MyPal feels that in the 80′s and 90′s students could start Computer Science courses in their first year of undergrad or even 2nd year of engineering but now starting early and getting a head start is quite important and there is really no need to wait until undergrad to learn the principles of computer science. It is more a mind set and limitation of school curricula in incorporating Computer Science rather than using Computer and Software. Parents could wait for school boards to change the curriculum or take the initiative on their own by checking out MyPal Online School’s computer science courses for bright kids
