BG Mahesh | Mahesh | mahesh.com » education http://www.mahesh.com Internet in India Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:57:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Should kids in Indian Schools learn Computers or Programming? http://www.mahesh.com/2010/06/07/should-kids-in-indian-schools-learn-computers-or-programming http://www.mahesh.com/2010/06/07/should-kids-in-indian-schools-learn-computers-or-programming#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:33:02 +0000 bgmahesh http://www.mahesh.com/?p=1359 Nearly all school boards in India today teach computers & programming. I am more familiar with the central boards – ICSE & CBSE. In ICSE syllabus you learn about computers (Microsoft Office, internet browsers etc) in primary school (may be 4th, 5th grades) and in 9th grade you can opt to take computers (which is Java programming) or economics or other things like singing. In CBSE it appears students “must” take computers in 9th and 10th which is programming (Visual Basic).

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As we renew our schools and highways, we’ll also renew our information superhighway. It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption. Here, in the country that invented the internet, every child should have the chance to get online, and they’ll get that chance when I’m President – because that’s how we’ll strengthen America’s competitiveness in the world.

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