Ask HN: Did any of you first encounter programming through Scratch?
This is part of the curriculum in France so anyone who is today around 20 would have started with Scratch.<p>I do not think this left lasting traces in pupils&#x27; minds.<p>Then in high school they are taught Python the worst possible way. Similar on how they teach math or physics.<p>I love my country but how scientific classes are taught is terrible. There is a sadistic obsession with math (this reminds me the way ducks are fed for <i>foie gras</i>) where they teach completely useless stuff (to a point you cannot imagine) born in the minds of tortured 70 years old ministers.<p>Physics is the same - &quot;how to choose the worse topics to make you hate physics&quot; was on the bedstand of the ones who invented the curriculum.<p>My son once told me &quot;dad, I do not know how people whose parents cannot explain this stuff manage to go though&quot;. This were the words of a top student of a top HS in France. You can imagine how it is elsewhere.