Florida schools: Computer science now counts as math credit - is this a good idea?

[Midnightwalk]

13. Programming involves logic

So it can count as math. My first programming class was taught by a math teacher.

Substituting programming for algebra doesn’t make sense to me. Sooner or later you’ll need that kind of thinking to program.

Computer literacy type classes and even web page design don’t count in my book even though web pages can have a lot of code behind them. As your son says only real programming counts

The processor hardware has an instruction set that is implemented with binary logic. Very little programming is done at that level any more. We mostly write code in a higher level language. That code is then “compiled” into the processor instructions and can then be executed.