The following is an excerpt from a speech given to the School Board about a change to the curriculum:
"Because the future will be dominated by technology, we must make four years of computer programming mandatory for all high school students. If our students take these classes, they’ll all be able to get high-paying programming jobs and lead fulfilling lives because software engineers and data scientists have the best job prospects and salaries. Therefore, we must educate our students so they can secure these kinds of jobs. Even if they pursue other careers, programming will still benefit them, given that all industries are becoming more technological."
Today's world is rapidly evolving as we made technological leaps that were unimaginable just 10 years ago. Computers and phones have become an essential part of our lives not just for leisure but for most useful work as well. There the school board's decision to change the curriculum and include mandatory computer classes is a well thought one.
Even though people say that money will not give you happiness, the entire world is in a rat race to earn more money and give their families a better life even if it means compromising on one's own happiness. As the author states software engineers and data scientists have not only the best job prospects but also the most salaries. It's one of the most sought-after jobs and yet there is no formal path for how to learn computer programming. In such a scenario from a young age itself, most kids have started coding on their own. However, they mostly give up due to a lack of a clear path due to schools not offering any courses in computers or programming. The school's decision might just start a trend where students can be guided more thoroughly as to what they must do to become adept in computer programming.
People tend to say that computer programming helps only a limited section of society but I beg to differ. Coding and programming as become an invaluable part of almost every high-paying job today. Right from a computer scientist trying to design a self-driving car to a mechanical engineer building models in CAD designs. Right from doctors using machine learning to understand the various effects of experimental drugs both short-term and long term to a business analyst predicting the trends of the stock market, the uses are infinite. All industries are rapidly evolving and they are expecting most of their employees to be good with technology as well as programming. Having developed these skills in high school itself, even people who aren’t rich or bright enough to go to college will be able to land a decent job and earn at least some basic amount of money.
Further, the decision to make it mandatory is important as usually, the first few weeks of programming are often the hardest. One must get familiar with not only the environment and syntax of programs even before getting into the programming part. One must learn how to think like a coder and also how different codes and programs are run on different machines. This however is quite boring and intimidating. Students will often drop out seeing all this. However, by making this compulsory the students will have no choice but to show persistence and break through these barriers, and more often than not these are the people who end up becoming the best of coders.
Looking at the above arguments, I am convinced that the school board's decision has been made after much deliberation and is completely in the interests of the students. As such the skill of handling computers and knowing basic coding is of paramount importance in today's day and world.
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Comments
e-rater score report
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 515 350
No. of Characters: 2436 1500
No. of Different Words: 285 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.764 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.73 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.588 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 165 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 119 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 86 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.391 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.203 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.565 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.258 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.471 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.046 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, so, well, as to, at least, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 11.1786427146 224% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 55.5748502994 115% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2483.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 514.0 441.139720559 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83073929961 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76146701107 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64999470804 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 280.0 204.123752495 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544747081712 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 763.2 705.55239521 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.8115567055 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.956521739 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.347826087 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.21739130435 5.70786347227 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.25374520305 0.218282227539 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0660265696969 0.0743258471296 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0486792342798 0.0701772020484 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134354930196 0.128457276422 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0500811105869 0.0628817314937 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.03 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 98.500998004 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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