Technology is proliferating at a rapid rate and a life without technology would be unimaginable. Computer programming is one such ramification of Technology which is highly in use, We can scantly find modern technological devices which does not involve programming. The argument here states that mandating computer programming course in a school would be beneficial to students. However, the argument here contains a number of unsubstantiated assumptions and is filled with fallacies.
First of all, any course should be chosen by the personal interest of the student and should not be forced down the throat. If a fish is judged by its ability to climb a tree, it is certainly going to get a bad grade. If a student wants to become a chef or interested in quantum physics but we make him a computer engineer, not only will the quality of the engineer produced will be atrocious, the engineer will always be ennui. The excerpt can be modified to make sure only those agog and savvy about programing can enrol to the course.
Additionally, the author fails to account for the number of computers available in the school. In case the number of students in the course exceeds the number of computers available at the school the plan to mandate computer programing would be faux pas. Adding, if the school has to get new computers either because the present computers are faulty or might not have any computers at all, a question arises if the school would be able to afford the new computers--if not, who will fund the schools?. The author must pellucidly allocate funds or provide links to donator for the replacement of old computers or buying new systems.
Lastly, the argument states that the computer programmers are well paid and can lead fulfilling lives and data scientists have the best job prospects and salaries. This statement is found wanting and is not backed up by any undergird. Also, if the claim is true, it is impossible to unerringly state that the claim would hold good in the future when the now school kids would hunt for jobs. It is not unheard that a previously well paid and in-demand job stream is now of little use and deserted.
After taking the aforesaid points into account, it can be observed that the argument fails to be compelling at its best and disingenuous at its worst. The argument is fallacious and can be ameliorated by incorporating the heretofore stated suggestions.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 412 350
No. of Characters: 1958 1500
No. of Different Words: 207 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.505 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.752 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.765 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 142 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 99 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 75 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.889 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.299 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.444 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.294 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.568 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.101 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, lastly, so, well, as to, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2009.0 2260.96107784 89% => OK
No of words: 411.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88807785888 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85098147694 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508515815085 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 621.9 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.6376776832 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.611111111 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8333333333 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.77777777778 5.70786347227 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.28144612973 0.218282227539 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0807061787893 0.0743258471296 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0642241239076 0.0701772020484 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138412615929 0.128457276422 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.077574853729 0.0628817314937 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => 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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